Battlefield

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[nok1888]

Ive got my PS3 in DMZ do I need to do these ports as well? only had game 2 days and lost connection about 6 times, must be EA cause never happens on other games. Will opening the ports help?

Cheers

[InfiniteStates]

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nok1888 wrote:

Ive got my PS3 in DMZ do I need to do these ports as well? only had game 2 days and lost connection about 6 times, must be EA cause never happens on other games. Will opening the ports help?

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No - a DMZ means you've effectively opened all ports. What could be causing you problems is UPnP - if you have that enabled, it is similarly redundant, but can cause weird conflicts. Toggle it...

[nok1888]

Cheers m8 I'll have a look

[MTXarnau]

when i put the ports, i have to put a Server IP Address.... whats this?? its the ip of my PS3???

[shankly1985]

Yes its ip of ps3, but your best of setting your ps3 a manual ip address. Because if router is restarted or another device connects first ps3 IP might change then the ports will be no good.

Have something like 192.168.1.100/100 is the device number so if you have 5 device connected to router they will most likely be .1 .2 etc so putting ps3 with .100 router will never change its IP unless you connect 101 devices LOL.

Best thing to do is put ps3 into DMZ.

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MTXarnau wrote:

when i put the ports, i have to put a Server IP Address.... whats this?? its the ip of my PS3???

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[BeetleBailey65]

I set up my static IP and am port forwarding on generic PS3 ports.  BF3 is now working.  As I'm using a mixed wireless network (802.11a/b/g in 2.4 Mhz via Linksys E4200V2), I want to streamline as much PS traffic to a single IP (and router port if hardwired) as possible in order to decrease overhead on the other ports and in my wireless environment. 

BF3 port list includes:

TCP: 80, 443, 9988, 10000-10100, 17502 42127

UDP: 3659, 14000-14016

Newbie questions follow:

1) Why would I want to port forward 80 and 443 to just one static IP address? 

2) Which ports do I really need to forward for BF3?

3) Are there any other means to 'point' BF3 traffic to the IP associated with my PS3 and keep it off the rest of the net?

4) for the range ports, do you set those up as port triggering or port ranging?

thx,

Beetle

[shankly1985]

Just setup ps3 in dmz on your router use the static IP address or on some router its mac address. if you need to do so for other devices you can open ports never put a PC in dmz.

This will open every port for ps3 for every game for best possible connection.

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BeetleBailey65 wrote:

I set up my static IP and am port forwarding on generic PS3 ports.  BF3 is now working.  As I'm using a mixed wireless network (802.11a/b/g in 2.4 Mhz via Linksys E4200V2), I want to streamline as much PS traffic to a single IP (and router port if hardwired) as possible in order to decrease overhead on the other ports and in my wireless environment. 

BF3 port list includes:

TCP: 80, 443, 9988, 10000-10100, 17502 42127

UDP: 3659, 14000-14016

Newbie questions follow:

1) Why would I want to port forward 80 and 443 to just one static IP address? 

2) Which ports do I really need to forward for BF3?

3) Are there any other means to 'point' BF3 traffic to the IP associated with my PS3 and keep it off the rest of the net?

4) for the range ports, do you set those up as port triggering or port ranging?

thx,

Beetle

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[Eric-Cartman_No1]

Even though upnp was enabled i would randomly get kicked from games. Opening these ports has solved my problem. A pain too do but worth it.

[InfiniteStates]

UPnP is unreliable - DMZ is the best bet by a long shot.