Using PS3 as a "router"?

[Keef]

Wouldn't it be great if it was possible to plug my computer into my PS3's ethernet port, and feed off of its wireless signal. It's entirely too logical to be possible, surely. Right?

 

[zed300]

If your running your PS3 off wireless, then you already have a wireless router...no?

 

[Casio]

If your running your PS3 off wireless, then you already have a wireless router...no?

I'm assuming he's being cheap and not buying a 15$ wireless NIC for his PC. I'm 87% sure that you can't with a PS3 but ICS is what you're looking for. However, if you put Linux on the PS3 you may have more luck.

 

[Boffin]

I does seem logical and I thought about it ages ago when I connected my PSP to the PS3 to go on the internet.

So in a way - it is a router for Sony products.