Actu­ally, I wanted to post my opin­ion of The Foun­tain, star­ring Hugh Jack­man and Rachel Weisz. Instead, I’m writ­ing about the PS3. First of all, I didn’t encounter any prob­lems at all after my ini­tial expe­ri­ence with the PS3. I did notice though, that a bunch of work­ing col­leagues weren’t so lucky (In ret­ro­spect, I should prob­a­bly call them dum­b­asses but that’s for another story.). Any­way, they have some prob­lems and so I ended up writ­ing this text to get them started. OK guys, let’s tackle your “problems”.

Here’s the offi­cial site and they have a work­ing forum. If you can read, stop try­ing to per­suade oth­ers to help you out. Check it out for your­self and you may actu­ally learn some­thing new. How­ever, some guys over at the PS3Forums have com­piled quite an exhaus­tive FAQ which should be more than enough for trou­bleshoot­ing pur­poses. And there’s a short list of PS3 error codes which can be found here.

As for the guys I’m writ­ing this – you most cer­tainly have a NAT prob­lem. Since the lousy lot of you has dis­abled UPnP on their wire­less routers you have to for­ward ports man­u­ally. Just access your router’s web inter­face where you should be able to find a topic like Port For­ward­ing. Here we are. Just for­ward ports 80, 443, 5223 (TCP) and 3478, 3479 (UDP) to your PS3′s IP address and you’re done. If you like to uti­lize the won­der­ful voice chat, you also have to for­ward 3658 (UDP). Now, every­thing should work like a charm. You may have to extend this list even­tu­ally, depend­ing on the games you play. Don’t ask me next time, look it up some­where on the net.

Since I’m already writ­ing this for your, here’s how to upgrade your PS3′s firmware. If you absolutely have to per­form the update using your PC, get your new firmware here. ATTENTION: Always use the firmware made and pro­vided for your region! After you down­loaded the upgrade, copy the firmware to a portable stor­age device. You have to cre­ate a folder called “PS3″ and within that a folder named “UPDATE”. The lat­ter one receives the firmware. Please note, that you absolutely have to use upper­case let­ters or your Playsta­tion won’t rec­og­nize your update! Last but not least, remove all USB devices, start the update process and fol­low the instruc­tions on the screen.