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Step 1. Get it wired, highest grade patch cable you can find.
Step 2. Plug the router into the internet directly at the master socket (where it enters the house).
Step 3. In your router control panel, assign the PS3 a static IP address*. It may also help to assign everything else in your house a static IP address.
Step 4. In your router control panel, assign that static IP address to the Demilitarised Zone/DMZ
Step 5. In your PS3 XMB Network Settings...
Internet Connection Settings -> Custom -> Wired Connection -> Auto Detect -> Manual
IP Address is whatever you set in the router, Subnet Mask is usually 255.255.255.0, Default Router is the same IP Address you assigned to the PS3 only with a .1 at the end*, Primary and Secondary DNS can be set to your ISP's DNS, OpenDNS's (208.67.220.220 & 208.67.222.222) or Google's (8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4)
-> Automatic -> Do Not Use -> Enable -> X to Save Settings -> Test Connection
Step 6. If this still doesn't work, get a new ISP and check that they're "gamer friendly"
*Exactly what those IP Addresses are will vary depending on the router you use. The commonest Default Router ISP is 192.168.0.1, but you will need to check. For the computers I use the .10-.19 range, for the laptops/netbooks I use the .20-.29 range, for the consoles I use the .30-.39 range and for the phones I use the .40-.49 range; the IP Address I use for my main PS3 is 192.168.0.30
That's likely to be the case, but not specifically for that reason - the consoles aren't just communicating with @AJ's, but with each other.
It's simply because internet traffic takes three tenths a second to get from Australia to the UK - or back the other way - and it goes through North America in the process. Traffic from all over Australia heading to Europe goes to Sydney and then either across to New Zealand and then the Pacific up to LA or up to Seattle. Then it goes across the USA and out of New York through one of about ten cables each the size of a car across the Atlantic over to the UK. It's about a 15,000 mile trip - which is 300ms at the speed of light, not including the relays and routers at each end.
The more Europeans there are, the worse it'll appear for @StigsTC or any Australian, because his console has to talk to ALL of theirs. And theirs to his too.
All he can do is sort out about 10% of the lag by optimising his internets. Some of the rest of it is just because the internet goes under two oceans eastwards, and not one westwards (but if it did that, you'd see US-Australia lag instead). Most of it is because we live in a universe limited by the speed of light and he's a long way away
Internet high-five for beating my time with 2.5 months of no driving!
