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Having been rather disappointed with Sony's level of technical support for their new Playstation 3 console, I decided to write my own notes and technical support help down, so that other people may find it useful.

I hope the information on, and linked from, this page will prove helpful to people new to the Playstation 3.

More sections will be added as I get more time, and discover more 'quirks' with the PS3.

Networking, Internet & Broadband

Network Configuration - A guide I wrote for the 'day job' about networking and configuring your firewall for online game play.

Game Reviews and Comments

MotorStorm - a very quick review I posted on my blog.

Online Gaming

Consult my ISP instructions for online network configuration, but I've included a couple of other ports in the standard Playstation Network access, as ports 3659 and 3660 seem to be needed for joining MotorStorm online games.

Sony's online manual doesn't make it entirely clear which ports are required for certain games, which can cause problems connecting, depending upon how secure your firewall is. The following table contains some of the ports required open by some popular games.

Game	Ports required open / Notes
Call of Duty 3	Source & Destination port 3074 allow outbound + inbound on UDP and TCP. This game seems a bit tricky to configure because quite often it refuses connection to a game, with an error such as "Could not connect to hosting player" or "Could not connect to all players", but it would appear that could be down to individual firewall settings of the other players.
MotorStorm	Source & Destination UDP ports 3659 - 3660 allow outbound + inbound N.B.MotorStorm can suffer from 'lag' in online games if the firewall settings are not quite correct.
Resistance: Fall of Man	Source UDP ports 6505 - 6999 allow outbound
Warhawk	It seems that Warhawk needs quite a few ports to be opened, to prevent the "this game is full" error messages preventing you from joining online games. You require UDP ports 6000 - 6499 to be open outgoing (incoming can be blocked) as well as outgoing UDP port 10029. I've also disocovered that TCP port 53346 should be open for outgoing connections.

N.B. This table is subject to revision as more information is discovered.

Using External Devices

Bluetooth Headsets	You should be able to use any bluetooth headset with the PS3. However, in my experience the best one I've found is the Plantronics Pulsar 590A stereo bluetooth headset, costing around £65.00. I've written some setup notes to help you get them working on your PS3.
USB Pendrives	You should be able to read your ordinary files (MP3, JPEG etc) on USB Pen drives inserted into one of the PS3 USB ports. However, sometimes you'll get the "There are no tracks." message when you try to access the files from the Pictures or Music options. Press the button and select the Display All option. The PS3 will then allow you to view all files on the pen drive.