Originally posted by spudeeelad
Sounds like you have been extremely foolish. You should have done far more research before making such a purchase. You should already have the knowledge and the resources in place to do what you want to do before buying a 3.55. Otherwise, you buy one and then come to find that you can't even do what you wanted to do anymore, suchas play online.
If you bought a 3.55 simply for Black Ops mods then you are even more foolish because you do not need a 3.55 ps3 to host modded Black Ops Zombies - it is done through modded gamesaves - something which any ps3 can do.