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1. Your switch is set up correctly.
2. Your ethernet cable is decently long (not necessary, but it really does help).
3. Your switch is at its best possible location (if possible, its best to connect it to the cable going from your modem to router, or if you can get a switch or hub before the connection to your ps3, that will also help).

modem---(s)---router-----ps3/360

Once you've done all that:

So you flip your switch and immediately get disconnected? Follow these steps to get some lag time.

1. Start to setup an internet connection.
2. Pick Wired
3. This is where most people get the settings horribly wrong. Pick MANUAL! (Picking easy will waste precious time looking for your information after you flip the switch, while having already memorized will allow it to re-connect faster)
4. Enter your IP information (if you don't know your ip address then setup an easy configuration, then look at it from the internet information option)
5. Pick 10base-T half duplex as your ethernet type.
6. Keep MTU at 1500.
7. Disable everything, other than UPnP. Leave UPnP enabled.
8. Test your connection to make sure that it works.
9. You should now be set.

Test it out by signing back in to PSN then flipping the switch. If it doesn't say "ethernet cable disconnected" for a few seconds then you should be good. If it says it immediately then you have probably just done something in your construction of the actual switch. If this is the case, then you should probably start from scratch with a new ethernet cord.

ya, you can get a few seconds. before i had my network switch, that was my placement and i could get around 8-10 seconds.

When i do these settings all the time when i test it it says

-obtain ip address failed

if i do easy it says succeded

why?

because you didnt enter the correct IP address. when you do the easy setup, go to "Connection Status List". It will show your IP (will most likely be 192.168.1.x, x being a number). Write it down. Enter the information manually again, but change your IP address to the number you wrote down.

sooo do you just flip it on and off really fast?

reading all the posts have helped so much.. this is great thanks to everybody who has posted responses to questions, i've read them all and i now have no questions

So... If there is no possible way to put the switch between the modem and router (i.e. you and your modem + router are VERY far apart) are there any other options besides modem---(s)----router that would allow me to get the switch next to my psp which is a 100ft away.

you can still put it from router to psp but i'd advise buying like 50ft ethernet to put from switch to psp as well as possibly a network switch/hub