I have a strange issue that i am wondering if anyone else has had. My laptop (a Sony) and my PS3 wont share my wireless connection when they are both on. It seems when the laptop is in use, and you turn on the PS3 the laptop loses its wireless connection, then after a min or so the PS3 loses its connection and the laptop gets it back.. And it just goes back and forth. Eventually they play nice but its very annoying and sometimes takes a while. My Wii works on wireless perfectly, and I have had multiple laptops at the same time on my wireless before so i don't think it is a limitation of the router (linksys WRT54G), and i assigned the PS3 a static IP so it wouldn't be a DHCP conflict and it still does it. I really don't relish the thought of drilling holes in my walls/floors to run a cat 5 into the living room, and i am not moving the router and modem. Any suggestions?

Could be that the ip addresses are still in conflict with each other if u have that many things on a wireless network...try assigning a static ip address to your ps3 that u know won't be used by anything else, like 192.168.1.25

Also, on the PS3, try turning off UPnP....it seems that sometimes the PS3 doesn't really agree with this too much

Ill try the UPnP, I assigned the PS3 an IP out of the range of what DHCP can assign, so they should always be different. I dont want to assign a static to the laptop because then when i take it somewhere else it will be a pain to connect.

Dr.

In my opinion the best way to deal with static IPs on a home network and avoid conflicts is to set everything to DHCP and then map the MAC addresses to specific IPs on whatever you use for the DHCP server.

This way, if you ever need to make global changes to DNS or anything, you don't need to remember to go to each host device and update its configuration.

Another thing you could look into is how many connections you have enabled on your router. I'm not sure waht the defaut is, but I had a similiar problem and this fixed it.

Ill try the UPnP, I assigned the PS3 an IP out of the range of what DHCP can assign, so they should always be different. I dont want to assign a static to the laptop because then when i take it somewhere else it will be a pain to connect.

Dr.

I think that disabling UPnP will solve your problem. My brother used to have the same problem with a Linksys WRT54GS router and it was solved by simply disabling UPnP in the router.