The whole thing with PS2

Ok now I am hearing all kinds of things about the PS2 and it going on line and how it will go online and all this crap. I just need someone to explain what the hell is going on. I have a cable modem so what will I need to do to get my PS2 online just buy the hard drive or what. The modem hooks up though a USB port. Am I going to have to buy a new modem? When will all this crap be availble for us to buy in the U.S.? I need answers please help.

all you will need is a the networking adapter for the ps2 and then you plug your category 5 cable into that. But since you got a usb thing into you comp i have no idea for you. all i know is im good.

Gameshark makes a modem that uses the USB port for the PS2, so I guess your modem might work!

that would be cool, then you would us eur own modem

wait, that just got to me,  you wouldnt just plug it into the eithernet card, you would run it throuhg your own modem? then to the card? oh great we need someone in here to tell us things.....

here is my question I use a D-link through my cablemodem (shhhhhhhhh nobody is supposed to know.......DOH!).....I have an extra port open can i run a cat-5 into it and be set to go when it comes out?


ScottyJ

If I only had cable......There are somepeople I know who know this stuff.... I\'ll ask them.

One thing to keep in mind is this. Most cable ISP\'s give you a single IP address and charge you extra if you want to add another one. Mine charges an extra $7 a month for every additional IP address you get. Now I don\'t know for sure, but if you hook up your PS2 to the cable modem, you may need a seperate IP address for it IF you want both your computer and PS2 to be able to access the net at the same time. UNLESS you run it through some sort of proxy server. Like I said, I\'m not too sure on this, but thats how it works if you want to add another computer to your cable ISP.

-Ramon

Originally posted by Chris_ps2
I have a cable modem so what will I need to do to get my PS2 online just buy the hard drive or what. The modem hooks up though a USB port. Am I going to have to buy a new modem? When will all this crap be availble for us to buy in the U.S.? I need answers please help.

no worries chris..sony will take care of you. you won\'t have to buy extra stuff to get online.

Ramon...
I have cable and was just planing on getting a hub to split the connection. Are you telling me that that will not work?

Well I don\'t know exactly how the BBA is going to work for the PS2, but if its anything similar to a standard NIC card than no, simply getting a hub will probebly NOT work, the reason is this... Each NIC card, broadband adapter, whatever you want to call it, has its own unique MAC address, no two are alike. When you hook up your PC and your PS2 to the hub, and then the HUB to your modem, the modem will SEE both devices, and if you only have 1 IP address registered through your ISP and both devices try to access the internet at the same time, you\'ll get an IP conflict. When I first got my cable modem I had two computers, I tried using a hub with a single IP address and it didn\'t work. However there is a way around this. You can setup your computer as a PROXY server by installing a 2nd NIC card and piggy backing your PS2 to that 2nd card. If you\'re running WIN2k, 98 2nd edition or ME, you can then setup "Internet Connection Sharing." If you\'re not running one of these OS\' you can get a program that will setup your computer as a proxy, one i\'m familiar with is called winproxy. What ends up happening is that your PS2 will use your PC as a  gateway to the internet, and because there is only one NIC card connected directly to your cable modem, the modem will never SEE your PS2 and you can live happily ever after. The only down side is that your computer needs to be turn on at all times if you\'re planning to go online with the PS2.

Hope this information helps an not confuses.

Oh, and by the way, the other way around this is to get a 2nd IP address from your ISP

-Ramon