Their servers are getting worse everyday. I hope PD isn't gearing up for "premium" pay-as-you-play deal. I updated my HDD to 320GB from 60GB, thinking it was the older HDD. Nope, same staring at the "GT" logo for up to 5 minutes before going back to main screen...
Somebody suggested hard-wiring the PS3 to the router; I don't think it's the wireless internet connection, though. Any thoughts on this?