No Wi-Fi upgrade for 20GB PS3 News

You can always just get a wireless bridge and hook that into the ethernet port. Worked great for the xbox.

$ony r teh d£v1l!

TeddyBoy r teh r£+4rd

a good cheap wireless access point can be bought for £15 i have it working in the back of my xbox360 via a switch which has my xbox original and pc connected this then talks to my wireless router and another wireless access point with my sons kit attached the nds and psp run off these too. should work a treat here as jiveguy says.

oh yes forgot.

SONY HATE US!!!

lol kaleii

Yup, I use a wifi bridge for my 360, so the PS3 is wifi-able by default. Maybe not a PS3 branded dongle, but wasn't that the point that it uses of-the-shelf PC accessories?

Hm, so if you do not have wireless at home, there is no PSP PS3 connectivity if you purchase the smaller SKU? On the other hand, are there even games that support the connection, or is it just for emulation / movies / music?

No problem for me, but I guess there will be some extra tears this chrimbo.

EDIT: ... in the US and JP, that is.

If Sony says you can't add wifi to the 20Gb PS3 they are talking out of their behinds. As the first poster mentions, you can just get a standard Ethernet to wireless bridge which works with ANY Ethernet capable device. News like this is very misleading and is clearly intended to fool people into buying the 60Gb PS3.

Like it has been mentioned, these news are just wrong.

@jiveguy & StormFlood

Just wondered how you get that thing working? I want to get onto Live but I really can't afford to pay £60 or so for an official MS wireless thing in case it doesn't work on my university's wireless network.

Wait, didn't sony say that they aren't going to release a 20 gb version in Europe in the first place?

Sony say a lot of things.

I read somewhere that Resistance allows for a 5GB install on the hard drive. What does that mean in the long run? Four games on there and it's full if you got the 20GB version? Is that gonna be a trend? It's out any day now and these are things not fully explained yet.

I'm increasingly glad we have 5 months extra to see what the deal is when the smoke clears.

SimonM7 you're in luck, I'd say sony will give you a few more months on top of that :) plenty time.

Jesus, that kind of sucks. Although the "not currently" statement suggests something will be sorted. I guess if the 60gb model has wifi built in, all you would need to expand the 20gb model is some kind of USB dongle as used by the XB360. So Sony are simply saying such a dongle won't be available on launch I would assume.

As others have said, there are plenty of wifi gateways available that will solve the problem.

@jimberlee

"for an official MS wireless thing in case it doesn't work on my university's wireless network."

The XB360 wifi dongle and corresponding dashboard sw is really very good. Its bang up to date and supports new standards such as 802.11A. If you can get your laptop working with your uni network I would be surprised if the dongle wouldn't work too.

However, to avoid the risk of me saying "yeah, go on, spend £60" and it then turn out to be bollox, here is a good starting point for you to continue your info gathering.

http://jakeludington.com/xbox/20060207_x...

P.s. eBay is where you want to be looking, you can get a new 360 adapter for around £45 if you hunt about.

Failing that, have a search about for a Linksys WGA54G. That will get your 360 wireless and you can bag them on eBay for a snip. Incidentally, the same product (or similar) would work for anyone wanting to get a PS3 20gb on wifi too.

Thanks kangarootoo. Does the offical wireless dongle let you save the passwords you need for getting onto the network though?. We have to sign in on a certain server to gain access you see.