How To Fix Playstation 3 Browsing Problems
The Playstation 3 does many things, from playing games to allowing you to browse The Internet from your sofa. Sometimes, however, things go awry. This film explains one or two ways of stopping the browser from crashing.
Step 1: Empty your Cache
Somehow, this helps. It's essentially deleting all the stuff from The Internet your PS3 has saved; do it by pressing the triangle button when in the Internet Browser, go to Tools on the Options menu. There, you can select Delete Cache.
Step 2: Turn Cookies On
Some sites throw a wobbly if cookies aren't flipped on, so make sure they are by pressing the triangle button when in the Internet Browser, and going to Tools on the Options menu. There, you can turn cookies on or off.
Step 3: Avoid Certain Sites
Some sites, like Hotmail.com and youTube crash because of the way they use Flash. Hopefully this'll be fixed by an update in the future, but for the time being; until then tread carefully.
Step 4: Sort out your Firewall
This is the complicated bit. If you pop your PS3 into a Demilitarised Zone, it might stop browser crashing. The first thing you need to do is assign a static IP address to your PS3. To do this, go to Settings-> Network Settings and Internet Connection Settings.
Select wither Wired or Wireless, depending on your connection, and any security passwords for WEP and what-have-you.
Both options will then give you a page entitled “Address Settings” – select Custom, which takes you to IP Address Settings – select ‘Manual'.
Under IP address, fill in something like 192.168.1.100 because 100 is high enough that you're unlikely to have devices using that many slots.
Subnet Mask should be 255.255.255.0
Default Router is the IP address of your router. To find it, go to the Start button on your Windows PC, select Run, type cmd and then ipconfig. This'll give you loads of data, look for the IP address and fill it in on the PS3.
Primary DNS and Secondary DNS need to be the same as Default Router IP address.
When all these are in, hit right on the D-pad. Leave MTU as automatic, and don't use a proxy server unless you're using one. Enable UPnp only if you're sure your router supports it.
Head over to your PC – this is where things get complicated because all routers are different. If you open your favourite Internet browser and type the IP address you just entered into the Address bar, that should pull up your settings.
Have a hunt around for settings related to the Demilitarised Zone, sometimes referred to as DMZ. When you find it, enter the Static IP you just entered for the PS3 – 192.168.1.100
Now your PS3 is in the Demilitarised Zone and, after switching everything off and on again (to reset any settings), you should hopefully notice less browsing problems.
