[quote name='shrike4242']Oh snap, it's a GET.
Yes, I have CAT5e cables hooking everything together on that switch. I have another switch in the room with the router that has my two printers hooked into it, and a CAT5e line around the perimeter of the room. One Tivo hooked in wired to the router, five Tivos hooked in wirelessly, plus my laptop, my wife's laptop, and my work laptop. Busy little home network, and about to change over to WPA tomorrow, when I finally have some time to do it.
I have uPNP turned off, and never see any real reason for it with what I have on my network. That might be the root cause of your issue, since I can't see the PS3 needing it for its operation. I'd try turning that off as a start. Port forwarding isn't that bad of an issue, as you just need to static the device you'll be port forwarding to, find out what ports it needs to talk on, and set up the forwards. Info for your router should show you what needs to be done.[/quote]
See, the problem with my network is location -- wireless makes EVERYTHING work, because there are only two cable drops in the house -- a line that comes in off the ground level in the back and into the family room, and a line that comes up through the floor into the office on the top floor. In the interest of keeping things nice and giving the router/modem the strongest connection I could, I moved it up to the office -- our two laptops usually run fine wirelessly down in the family room. However, since the big 3 came into play, my connection drops more often than it ever does and hers drops any time the PS3 wakes up. I really don't want to have to move the router back downstairs (and the VoIP phone/converter with it) just to make the PS3 wired, which is why I would consider buying an access point/switch... if the PS3 could wirejack into the access point and the AP could connect to the router upstairs wirelessly, I'd look into it.
The uPnP crap may end up solving my PSN issue... and while I know how to forward ports inside the router, I'd have no clue which ports would need forwarding with regards to the PS3... I could make the PS3 the DMZ box for the network since it is static... how likely is it that this would help? And how much risk would the PS3 be at for being hax3d?