Streaming from imac to PS3

jonathan11

Hi, I bought an 20' imac with built in airport extreme. I'd want to stream media wirelessly to my PS3, so I bought this software...
http://www.nullriver.com/products/medialink
Can someone give some hints on how this should be setup? Or even if its possible to do?

I've created a wireless network through the airport GUI. Then, i try a wifi scan using the PS3 but it doesn't seem to find it. The imac and PS3 are very close to each other... not sure if its relevant but I don't have a broadband connection. Any suggestions much appreciated...

Thanks

babypink

i use this and it works great - simple question.......is medialink turned on in system preferences?

Joe Gt

just used the free 30min trial of this and seams to be real good , tempted to get the software now

jonathan11

Hi babypink, yes, medialink is turned on in the system preferences.

I'm guessing my problem is with the wifi connection... I create a network using the internal airport extreme but the ps3 dosen't pick it up. Would the fact that i don't have an internet connection be causing the problem I wonder?

http://www.myps3.com.au/GuideDetail.aspx?id=35

Gerard_Smith

Have you tried turning off your macs firewall? This is the problem I was having when I first installed it.

jonathan11

yep, firewall is off.

aidan_walsh

Whats your router? Does it have an embedded firewall that might be causing issues? Does it support uPNP?

jonathan11

I'm using the internal imac airport as an access point. I just had broadband installed on my mac at lunchtime and now the ps3 is picking up the wifi when I scan. :-) Will play around more with the settings this evening and let you know how I get on. thanks...

nialler

Hi Jonathan

Is the airport running on .g or .n? Have a 20" iMac myself but I have a router controlling my network and my 360 plugged into the network, with connect360 (also from nullriver) streaming all my media without a hitch. Now mediashare might have to "allow" the ps3 to access. Send me a PM I'll have a look when I'm at my mac later and see what I can sort out.

Nialler (www.techeads.ie)

nialler

Ok can see what's happening.

When you open your network preferences and create the airport network, call it say imac, you'll see in the sidebar that "imac" network is highlighted and broadcasting but saying "self assigned IP" now you need to click on the advanced button, under TCP/IP instead of DHCP as there is no DHCP server on the network you need to put in manual.

Put something like :

IP: 192.168.0.1
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Router/Gateway: 192.168.0.1
DNS: 192.168.0.1


Ok now that's broadcasting (possibly on channel 11)

Here's where I may get confused as I don't have a PS3:

Join the network on the PS3 called imac, in its network setting manualy configure the addresses like this:

IP: 192.168.0.2
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Router/Gateway: 192.168.0.1
DNS: 192.168.0.1

Hopefully that should allow ps3 and imac to see each other.

Let me know how you get on.


Nialler

jonathan11

Thanks for all the suggestions, eventually got it to work... Used the below description I found on the web....

http://forums.macnn.com/92/networking/323056/mac-os-x-internet-sharing-playstation/2/

Okay, so I know this thread is old, but up to last month nobody had posted a solution to using the internal airport card to share the connection so I said i'd register incase anyone else was googling endlessley to find a solution.

Turn on Internet sharing:
select the network you want to share and share it via airport and give your network a name... set up a 5 digit WEP key if you want protection.

open terminal and type ifconfig en1
This will give you your router number, mine was 10.0.2.1, it will be listed next to the word inet
next type dig, this will give you your ISP's DNS numbers (at the very bottom, next to the word server)

On your PS3 open the network settings, scan for your new network, enter the WEP key and configure the IP manually.

Under IP type the router number but add a digit to the last number, in other words, my router was 10.0.2.1, so I assigned my PS3 the IP 10.0.2.2
use the standard subnet mask of 255.255.0.0
enter the router number you found (10.0.2.1)
enter the DNS numbers found earlier.

MTU = Auto
Proxy Server = Do Not Use
UPnP = doesnt make a difference

and thats it, your done... im using my PS3 with my 3G mobile broadband shared via airport.

EDIT: After a PM I realised I completely left out the Airport settings part.

In Airport settings under TCP/IP select configure IPv4 via DHCP, and under DNS add your ISP's DNS numbers that you found earlier.

nialler

isn't that what I suggested above without using the terminal?

babypink

nialler wrote: »

isn't that what I suggested above without using the terminal?

perhaps he just wanted to geek out!!

terminal FTW

jonathan11

one last quick question...

Do you know if mac address filtering is available on the imac built-in airport extreme? I can't seem to find anywhere to configure this. Perhaps its only available on the airport extreme base station??? I only have WEP at the moment so I wanted to keep the neighbours off my network

Thanks