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    my mate has a problem with playing online with his mates, hes got Sky broadband. problem is he can only play online with his friends who are also connected with Sky internet but not no one else, he was told to change the port number...but to what though? sorry bit of newbie to this.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Escobar View Post
    hi guys

    my mate has a problem with playing online with his mates, hes got Sky broadband. problem is he can only play online with his friends who are also connected with Sky internet but not no one else, he was told to change the port number...but to what though? sorry bit of newbie to this.
    Port number?

    Is he connecting via ethernet cable or wireless? If it's wireless, then I suspect he's been informed to change his channel, which can easily be changed in the router setup page. For sky this should be 192.168.0.1 - username = admin password = sky

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    yeah hes connected wireless. what should i change the channel to?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Escobar View Post
    yeah hes connected wireless. what should i change the channel to?
    Try 1, 11, or 6.

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    Im a bit puzzled by this... why would changing the wifi channel change the fact that he is only able to connect to people on his same ISP ? I would have thought it would be more like DNS settings that would cause such a fault ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by tronads View Post
    Im a bit puzzled by this... why would changing the wifi channel change the fact that he is only able to connect to people on his same ISP ? I would have thought it would be more like DNS settings that would cause such a fault ?
    I've no idea either, I'm only going from the OP which said he'd been recommended to change "ports".

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    Presumably they are talking about a PS3 setting but for the life of me I can't think which, just an easy way to hang up I reckon. I'll have a look on my console now and see if there is anything that might make sense!!

    EDIT, maybe a Router issue?
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    apparently the sky broadband service is maxed out so it could be because of a slow broadband service , so its only connecting to people with similar ping times . take the PS3 round to someones house who hasn't got sky broadband and try it. I can't understand how it would be any setting on the ps3 or router , has he tried different games ...which games cause this and has he tried at a non-busy time say 2 am
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    Quote Originally Posted by sniper View Post
    apparently the sky broadband service is maxed out so it could be because of a slow broadband service , so its only connecting to people with similar ping times . take the PS3 round to someones house who hasn't got sky broadband and try it. I can't understand how it would be any setting on the ps3 or router , has he tried different games ...which games cause this and has he tried at a non-busy time say 2 am

    He only plays Fifa 10, he called sky and he was told to change the port/channel from the router. im gonna go to his later on and see if changing the channel makes any difference.
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    Disable UPnP if it exists on the ps3, off the top of my head I don;t know if this exists on the ps3,

    manually assign IP address, subnet, and gateway and set port forwarding correctly, ( not sure which ports though)

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