Play another ps3 over ethernet?

i am trying to play a friend over ethernet. we have 2 ps3s, 2 copies of black ops and mw2. we have tried several different things with no luck. could someone PLEASE HELP US! as basic a guide as possible just so we dont make and mistakes.
thanks in advance

[Skelator03]

just use one of the new payloads and get on PSN it is free and then you can play BO... MW2 does not work online that i know as of right now

[monkeymaximus]

but then there is the chance they will get banned... so not exactly the safest thing.

[crait]

If your PS3's aren't hacked, just use the PSN. Right?

[monkeymaximus]

ya but skelator is talking about using a new payload.

we do not have the ability to connect to the internet, and one ps3 is jailbroken and the other isnt. hope this can help further to solve my issue

[monkeymaximus]

I don't have the game but I can identify networking mistakes. How are you setting it up?

[Skelator03]

u would have to use XKaiLink if it was me i would just try the psn route no bans yet and if you do get banned just spoof the mac ID and the PSID

monkeymaximus we have all sorts of ethernet cables all of which we have tried connecting directly from one ps3 to another. is there no way we can connect via our wifi?i could possibly get my hands on an old wireless hub but we have no internet connection where we are...

[Skelator03]

but yet u can post online lol jk

i know Black ops had LAN support should be able to plug them into eachother need cat 5 cable

[monkeymaximus]

but yet u can post online lol jk

i know Black ops had LAN support should be able to plug them into each other need cat 5 cable

Small networking issue is for PS3 <-> PS3 you'll need a crossover cable instead of a patch cable, you can play LAN games over wireless its no different than using a wired connection

So network setups will either need to be

PS3 <-> PS3 using a crossover cable
PS3 -> Switch/router <- PS3 with standard ethernet cables
PS3 -> Wireless AP <- PS3 using the built in wireless

You can spot crossover cables because if you hold the 2 RJ-45 connectors next to each other the cable colour layout won't match, patch cables will match up the colours perfectly

Hope that helps

[monkeymaximus]

Hehe Cypherous beat me to it

giving you thanks for that one as its informative

[Skelator03]

gj you know more than me thanks

but yet u can post online lol jk

i know Black ops had LAN support should be able to plug them into each other need cat 5 cable

Small networking issue is for PS3 <-> PS3 you'll need a crossover cable instead of a patch cable, you can play LAN games over wireless its no different than using a wired connection

So network setups will either need to be

PS3 <-> PS3 using a crossover cable
PS3 -> Switch/router <- PS3 with standard ethernet cables
PS3 -> Wireless AP <- PS3 using the built in wireless

You can spot crossover cables because if you hold the 2 RJ-45 connectors next to each other the cable colour layout won't match, patch cables will match up the colours perfectly

Hope that helps

Could you explain how to connect using a switch/router. i bought an ethernet switch, plug two cables in and connect to the ps3s. lights come on however lan party still doesnt seem to work correctly?!

how would wireless work, but as i said earlier i have no internet connection. the one i am using to reply to this is via a dongle and signal strength is poor.

a step by step guide if possible would be greatly appreciated.

[monkeymaximus]

but yet u can post online lol jk

i know Black ops had LAN support should be able to plug them into each other need cat 5 cable

Small networking issue is for PS3 <-> PS3 you'll need a crossover cable instead of a patch cable, you can play LAN games over wireless its no different than using a wired connection

So network setups will either need to be

PS3 <-> PS3 using a crossover cable
PS3 -> Switch/router <- PS3 with standard ethernet cables
PS3 -> Wireless AP <- PS3 using the built in wireless

You can spot crossover cables because if you hold the 2 RJ-45 connectors next to each other the cable colour layout won't match, patch cables will match up the colours perfectly

Hope that helps

Could you explain how to connect using a switch/router. i bought an ethernet switch, plug two cables in and connect to the ps3s. lights come on however lan party still doesnt seem to work correctly?!

how would wireless work, but as i said earlier i have no internet connection. the one i am using to reply to this is via a dongle and signal strength is poor.

a step by step guide if possible would be greatly appreciated.

Right if its just a plain switch then the reason the LAN isn't working is because the PS3 by default tries to obtain an IP address from a DHCP server, in order to get the PS3's to see each other you'll need to change it over to a static IP as there is no DHCP server present with your setup, this is actually nice and easy to setup

Right firstly you'll need to go to the internet settings section on the PS3 settings, now you need to select custom then wired, now you'll get to a part that asks if you want to set the PS3's IP manually or via DHCP, select the manual option then you need to set the first PS3 to 192.168.0.1 and the subnet to 255.255.255.0, when it asks for DNS settings just type in 192.168.0.1, after this it should ask you a few more questions about MTU and proxy connections just leave those all at the default options and it should save them and attempt to perform an internet connection test, now the internet portion of this test is going to fail and thats to be expected as you don't have an internet connection

The second PS3 will be setup the same way except for its IP address you will enter 192.168.0.2 leaving all the other details the same, again the end test will fail but thats fine, both PS3's should hopefully now be able to see each other in games that are LAN enabled, if you have any problems then post back and i'll try to help