eg8r
03-06-2004, 09:24 PM
Hello everyone,
I need some help from the hardware guys. My bro-in-law wants to start playing his PS2 games online with a friend, I told him that would be easy enough to do in a couple hours. He currently uses AOL Broadband (cable modem).
Well we go out and buy all the parts for the PS2 to hook up to the internet. Get home find out that it did not work. I called the PS tech support line and they told me it was because the AOL firewall does not give out IP addresses (or something to that effect). Well the PS2 needs to see the IP address. So we called TimeWarnerAOL tech support. They agree that it is a problem with AOL and there is only one thing to do...Buy a router (the router is supposed to assign an IP for the PS2). So off to the store we go again. We purchase the Linksys wireless router. 2 or three wireless ports and 2 hardwire ports. I hooked up the incoming line into the router, and from the router I hooked up the PC, and the PS2 (both hard lines). Well the PC worked just fine, however the PS2 still was unable to connect to the internet.
I spent a couple hours fooling with this and sitting on the phone with tech support and they do not understand the problem either.
Any suggestions????
eg8r
I need some help from the hardware guys. My bro-in-law wants to start playing his PS2 games online with a friend, I told him that would be easy enough to do in a couple hours. He currently uses AOL Broadband (cable modem).
Well we go out and buy all the parts for the PS2 to hook up to the internet. Get home find out that it did not work. I called the PS tech support line and they told me it was because the AOL firewall does not give out IP addresses (or something to that effect). Well the PS2 needs to see the IP address. So we called TimeWarnerAOL tech support. They agree that it is a problem with AOL and there is only one thing to do...Buy a router (the router is supposed to assign an IP for the PS2). So off to the store we go again. We purchase the Linksys wireless router. 2 or three wireless ports and 2 hardwire ports. I hooked up the incoming line into the router, and from the router I hooked up the PC, and the PS2 (both hard lines). Well the PC worked just fine, however the PS2 still was unable to connect to the internet.
I spent a couple hours fooling with this and sitting on the phone with tech support and they do not understand the problem either.
Any suggestions????
eg8r