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Strange PS3 behaviour
16-05-2009 1:33 PM
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Basically my PS3 is constantly accessing the internet and looks like its downloading the entire internet to its hard drive. The web browser is not open, its on the TV part. I can see no reason what-so-ever that my PS3 should be accessing the internet, but it is and I have no idea how to find out what it is actually doing.
Does anyone have any experience of this? How can I capture what data is being sent/recieved? Why would it need to continually download stuff from the internet? its not an update, that needs to be done manually (and the account being used on the PS3 isn't an "admin" so can't actually update).
The only thing I can think of is that the PlayTV is accessing the internet for some reason, but I can't figure out what, the TV guide should be OTA, its really annoying because it does suck up the bandwidth.
Re: Strange PS3 behaviour
16-05-2009 6:57 PM
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Quote How can I capture what data is being sent/recieved?
(cough) wireshark
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Re: Strange PS3 behaviour
16-05-2009 7:45 PM
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Re: Strange PS3 behaviour
16-05-2009 9:08 PM
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Re: Strange PS3 behaviour
16-05-2009 11:19 PM
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Re: Strange PS3 behaviour
17-05-2009 7:08 AM
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Our PS3 doesn't generate any significant network traffic unless we are actually on-line although we don't have Play TV so I can't comment on that.
How about leaving Play TV on during a time when you know there is no other Broadband usage (overnight?) and see if anything significant shows up in your usage on the portal.
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Re: Strange PS3 behaviour
17-05-2009 4:58 PM
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From 198.107.156.128 to 192.168.0.5 (a powerline adapter) there is something from hpvirtgrp which is apparently something to do with HP Virtual Group or somthing, but I don't use anything from HP.
Its currently not spinning up, so may be a good idea to try again later, nothing for my PS3 though which is 192.168.0.3
/edit - my mistake, 0.5 is my PS3.
Re: Strange PS3 behaviour
17-05-2009 5:53 PM
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Quote from: dgwebb I can see no reason what-so-ever that my PS3 should be accessing the internet, but it is and I have no idea how to find out what it is actually doing
Your logged into PSN and the jabber client will be running, background chatter?
Regarding the HD activity, do you have the option set to always buffer the TV?
Re: Strange PS3 behaviour
17-05-2009 8:31 PM
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/edit - I think I've found the problem, but I have no idea why the problem is happening nor how to stop it. Basically whenever I access say, a web page, the signal is being sent all across the network. It's more noticable on youtube because thats a constant stream which makes the powerline adapter lights flash like crazy, it also causes lag on the err serious documentary /coff that I'm watching on youtube.
So why would the traffic be going all across the network instead of to where it should be going? it should be going directly to 192.168.0.2 rather than flying around all over the place shouldn't it?
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18-05-2009 5:07 PM
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Re: Strange PS3 behaviour
18-05-2009 6:37 PM
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http://ask-leo.com/whats_the_difference_between_a_hub_a_switch_and_a_router.html
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Re: Strange PS3 behaviour
18-05-2009 8:03 PM
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/edit - I tried a factory reset, but to no avail, its still apparently sending traffic all over the place. Could it be to do with the ethernet cable the powerline adapters use? Or could it be the powerline adapters themselves?
I'm getting rather confused now. It's a Netgear DG834G which is a 4 port switch, so it *should* be acting like a switch and route the traffic correctly but it isn't, this is driving me potty, where's my hammer?!
Ahh, could it possibly be the power line adapters causing the netgear to stop switching, the powerline adapters are err bridges, which require their own IP address, so my router is assigning them their IP addresses which means the netgear is seeing 3 different IP addresses coming to port 2, so is physically unable to route the traffic properly? My line of thinking is, lemme see:
Router === Adapter === Adapter === PS3
If we assign router as 01, Adapter's as 02 and 03 and PS3 as 04, the Netgear has to send the traffic out all over the place to get to 04 because it also has 02 and 03, or am I missing something?
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19-05-2009 9:56 PM
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20-05-2009 12:19 AM
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22-05-2009 4:05 PM
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