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I thought about buying a USB dongle to put in my ps3 but I wanted to ask if it would work, I thought about it as my ps3 is some distance away from the router. Anyway I found one which can reach speeds of 300mbps, would that be any good ?
 
If your internet sevice provider (ISP) is giving you a low/slow bandwidth connection, no amount of dongles or router upgrades is going to correct the situation. All that 300mbps dongle to router will do for you is make your small gap between ps3 and router speed fast, nothing more. Where you need speed is out to the rest of the world, and that has to come from your ISP.
If you had a 10/100 router attached to your ps3, but a 1.5mbps download speed connection, you're not going to get things done online very fast. But if you had that same 10/100 router connected to a 50mbps connection, oh yea. Much much faster downloads and smoother connections.
 
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If your internet sevice provider (ISP) is giving you a low/slow bandwidth connection, no amount of dongles or router upgrades is going to correct the situation. All that 300mbps dongle to router will do for you is make your small gap between ps3 and router speed fast, nothing more. Where you need speed is out to the rest of the world, and that has to come from your ISP.
If you had a 10/100 router attached to your ps3, but a 1.5mbps download speed connection, you're not going to get things done online very fast. But if you had that same 10/100 router connected to a 50mbps connection, oh yea. Much much faster downloads and smoother connections.
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I think your right, so I should get Fibre optic connection then or just move my PS3 closer to the router ?
 
Your ps3 doesn't need to be super close to the router in order to work good. Just have a decent cat5 or cat6 ethernet cord connecting the two together and you'll be fine. It can be 50 feet long and not matter, as long as it's of good quality.

If you have a fiber optic internet connection available in your area and can afford it monthly, go for it. That's where you'll see fast download speeds. For gt5, in online races it helps tremendously to have a solid internet connection like that. I had issues a while back until I switched to fiber optic broadband. Problem solved. I can now maintain a solid connection in a full room of 16 players racing. Others may not hold their connections, but those guys get weeded out pretty quick, and then what's left are those that have good ISP connections.
 
Physically moving it closer has little effect compared to getting faster connections from your ISP.


edit: tree'd. I coincidentally have my ps3 on the other side of the house hooked up with a 50ft cat5e cable.
 
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Physically moving it closer has little effect compared to getting faster connections from your ISP.


edit: tree'd. I coincidentally have my ps3 on the other side of the house hooked up with a 50ft cat5e cable.
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lol tree'd.
go for cat6 if you can afford it. better shielding.
 
Of course cat6 is better, but this was back in 2010 when I didn't know about cat6's existence. I wouldn't bother now because I'd have to feed the cable through the basement's ceiling boards... and I don't want to have to do that again. :lol:
 
No sir, and I don't blame you one bit. I wouldn't either. All of my connections are handy in the same general area where my cable enters my house, right in my living room, and I have no basement to deal with which makes it a breeze for my connections.
Although one can get very anal over all this in short order, trying to minimize all the parasitic losses at all the connection points, installing better cables, dongles, routers, modems and all of it. That's why I suggest to have a good cable, a decent router and then get a fast internet connection. You won't even notice the rest so can forget about it and enjoy the thing for what it is.
 

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