Friends dropping out of private room

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Hi guys

Everytime I race with my mates in my private lounge, I have two guys who lose their network connection at least 2 or 3 times in a night. This happens every time we race and it's the same two guys. The rest of us never have a problem. The other night in one race I could see both of them but they couldn't see each other. It's all rather strange but I was wondering if there was anything I could do with the room set up to help them. They both use a wireless connection which probably doesn't help. From memory I use the standard quality and we all use bluetooth headsets. There's a maximum of 5 of us at one time.

Simon
 
If you and your friends are racing just use your lounge (they seem more stable)
Also IF you are going to use wireless, make sure you power cycle your router AND modem. I would say 40-50% of us run wireless with 10-12 people most nights in lounge WITH mics and very rarely have issues.
 
A lot of people here have this problem, while some don't (like me for one). I'd try to set the room quality to standard or lower and mic quality standard or lower.

I have a huge feeling that all these people with such severe problems have crap internet connections or don't let things load properly. I've heard people manually shutting off their ps3 while the game is still running, that's not good for the system if somethings loading and damages your hard drive.

GT5 is a highly data sensitive game so if your system isn't up to par, things will go wrong. That explains why some other (less quality) games work better than others.

PS: I have a 120gb slim (40gb free) from 2 years ago and a wireless connection. No problems except a few slow loadings (due to full high capacity rooms) and maybe a freeze at rare occassions (1/20 times).
 
If someone in the room sees someone else with constant loading lines under their name, one or both of them need to leave the room and come back in. When they come back in the room they should let everything load fully before doing anything. The three track options in the lower right corner should be blue when everything is loaded.

If they have the loading lines under their name they won't be able to see each other on the track. I see this issue all the time and usually backing out of the room and re-entering can fix the problem.
 
- Hardwire.

- Reset cache.

- Reset PS3.

- Reset modem and/or router before logging on.

- Let everyone into the room before anyone goes onto the track, into the garage, or changes settings.

- Use someone else's room. Sometimes if the host and another guy have a mild connectivity problem between them, it will make the room particularly unstable for the second guy.

- Have the slowest guy get a faster internet connection.

- Check your NAT Type to find some of that info.

- Have them set up a DMZ on their router for the PS3. They should also ask about similar of their ISP if they're modem is really a router, as well (most are). If they won't put you into a DMZ, ask them to open the following ports:

TCP: 80, 443, 5223, and 10070-10080
UDP: 3478, 3479, 3658, 5223, 5658, 10070, and 50100


More info on the last two points can be found here. Each of you (even the host) should follow that to a tee.


I had to do all of those things and am only now experiencing a good, consistent connection. Getting my ISP to put my modem into a DMZ, and putting my PS3 into a DMZ on my router has made the biggest difference.
 

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