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I bought a PS3 the other day and connected it to my AE which in turn is connected to a cable modem. Everything seemed to be going fine until I tried downloading a firmware update (for the PS3) and some game demos. The speed at which they were downloading was extremely slow, so I decided to surf the web on my MacBook while I wait it out. No dice, the wireless internet connection was barely working and it would time out on almost every site. So I realized that the PS3 might be hogging all the bandwidth. So I began some troubleshooting. Unhooked my cable modem and directly attached it to my MacBook through Ethernet and checked my connection at dslreports.com. The connection was perfect, so I hooked it back up to my AE and tested the connection again with only my MacBook active on the wireless network. No problems once again.
Here's where I decided to try my old Netgear router just to see if it would play nice. So I attached the Netgear to the Airport (which I still wanted to keep active because of a couple network drives and a printer) configured the PS3 and it's been working perfect since. Doesn't hog the bandwidth at all, plus some of the features (playing online, getting CD track names) that didn't work with the AE now work perfectly. Could this have something to do with UPnP? I know that the AE doesn't have UPnP but NAT instead, but the PS3 seems to only play nice with UPnP. Any insight as to what I should try to do? Any help is deeply appreciated and thanks in advance.
Here's where I decided to try my old Netgear router just to see if it would play nice. So I attached the Netgear to the Airport (which I still wanted to keep active because of a couple network drives and a printer) configured the PS3 and it's been working perfect since. Doesn't hog the bandwidth at all, plus some of the features (playing online, getting CD track names) that didn't work with the AE now work perfectly. Could this have something to do with UPnP? I know that the AE doesn't have UPnP but NAT instead, but the PS3 seems to only play nice with UPnP. Any insight as to what I should try to do? Any help is deeply appreciated and thanks in advance.