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cannot connect PS3 to windows VISTA or XP PRO media sharing :(

ViviTheMage

ViviTheMage

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I HAD this working for my PS3...I was able to play videos off of my VISTA Ultimate installation and XP PRO 64bit.

I just tried playing something tonight, and neither machine sees the PS3, nor does the PS3 find/discover any other media sharing server.

I can get to the net on the PS3, so the network is good, I have enabled media sharing via WMP11 on both machines, no luck...

I am on wireless on the PS3, but it gets to the net, and it USED to be able to play/stream no problem from my PCs.

Any ideas?
 
Are you running PS3MS?

Have you changed around anything on your PS3 that may have impacted your PCs ability to identify it properly?

Do you see the PS3 when you open up your media sharing under WMP?
 
Yeah man, that used to happen to me. Sometimes it would work, usually it would not. Eventually I switched my WRT54G with stock firmware for a Buffalo router with Tomato firmware, and it's been working well so far. I also changed my wireless channel to one near the edge that no one else was using. They usually default to 6, I think I used 2 (because someone else was on 1).

Since hard-wiring is probably not an option, I'd start by trying different wireless channels, then consider replacing your router or adding another router or wireless access point closer to the PS3.
 
Originally posted by: mugs
Yeah man, that used to happen to me. Sometimes it would work, usually it would not. Eventually I switched my WRT54G with stock firmware for a Buffalo router with Tomato firmware, and it's been working well so far. I also changed my wireless channel to one near the edge that no one else was using. They usually default to 6, I think I used 2 (because someone else was on 1).

Since hard-wiring is probably not an option, I'd start by trying different wireless channels, then consider replacing your router or adding another router or wireless access point closer to the PS3.
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I COULD hardwire it, at least to test though.

You don't even want me to explain my wireless network, it's "messy".

I guess I will though.
I have a DIR-655 that hooks up to a DOCSIS 3.0 50MB cable modem via 1GB ethernet WAN-ETHERNET...1GB ethernet port goes to my server, the other to my main PC, and the other to my DVR.

Wirelessly the DIR655 connects to 2 DD-WRT linksys routers, and then those two connect to two others...kind of like this :

DIR-655 <-> Linksys1 <->Linksys2 <-> Linksys3 <-> Linksys4
^^ ------------------------^^

I do have Linksys2 talking to the 655 as well if you could translate my little arrows 😀.
I live in a 12 unit condo complex, and to save us all oodles of money, I decided to set this up in a huge mesh network, and it's worked great for about 9 months now...we don't have to run any ethernet cables, it's all wireless. 12 units x 55$ (roughly) per month for comcast, down to one bill of 139$ for this one connection...and it's much beefier then those little 16Mb connections they had.

Now for something that actually relates to my issue :
the wireless is WEP, since WPA shortens the signal on my mesh network, and it's b/g on channel 2.


Originally posted by: BenSkywalker
Are you running PS3MS?

Have you changed around anything on your PS3 that may have impacted your PCs ability to identify it properly?

Do you see the PS3 when you open up your media sharing under WMP?
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I removed the PS3 from both systems WMP11's, since they were not working...was hoping it would redetect it, no luck 🙁.

I removed my xbox 360, but that's about it in my network.

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Restart the PS3, then the PC?
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Did this, no luck.
 
Yes it is naked...on all of my routers. I have 2 other condo people that have PS3's hooked up no problemo. They both have media sharing disabled.

Should I try removing it?
 
Well, you could try grabbing PS3 Media Server and seeing if it can communicate, that would take relatively little effort. I'd probably log into the router and check the IP being assigned to the PS3 and see if I could ping it from the PC as well.
 
The IP is pingable.

How would I try grabbing the PS3 media server? Is there a manual way to connect to the PS3 from my PC?
 
/facepalm

Try hardwiring to confirm whether it's a wireless issue.

PS3 Media Server is a program you run on your PC... he's telling you to install that instead of whatever you're using. "Grab" == get.
 
Originally posted by: mugs
Try hardwiring to confirm whether it's a wireless issue.
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You know, I can't recall for sure if I experienced these problems when I was wired or wireless... I know I switched to wired because wireless just didn't seem to be up to streaming HD content.
 
Had the same problem I think its because the ps3 was assigned a different ip address then the one media player was looking for. What i did was set up and put in a static ip on my ps3 so it assigns the same one each time. *Before i did this i deleted the ip i was going to use if it was in use on my client tables first then assigned the ps3 an ip.
 
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: mugs
Try hardwiring to confirm whether it's a wireless issue.
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You know, I can't recall for sure if I experienced these problems when I was wired or wireless... I know I switched to wired because wireless just didn't seem to be up to streaming HD content.
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I will check that out when I get home, wired and wireless.

I have no issues streaming a 37GB movie 😀
 
I ethernet'd it up, and assigned a static IP...I saw this in the logs :

UPnP added entry 255.255.255.255 <-> 71.195.51.220:3658 <-> 10.10.5.30:3658 UDP timeout:-1 '10.10.5.30:3658 to 3658 (UDP)'


can I manually connect it in WMP11? They do not detect it still.
 
Have you tried PS3 Media Server yet? It traces activity, so if it sees the PS3 at all, but then has some sort of failure communicating, you might get more meaningful feedback to resolve the issue.
 
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Yeah, it works, but it does not explain why both WMP11 installations do not now...
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That is confusing indeed, but at least now you've isolated the issue. I've not used WMP with my PS3 at all so I have no clue what's going wrong there.
 
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