Where has the Crow been?

The Crow has been a busy man. He finally decided it was time to “get online” with his Playstation 2. And so the Crow came across this page on the Sony site telling him how easy it was to put your Playstation 2 online.

LIES!!!

The main part, a network adapter is now only available online. So the Crow bought one from ebay, which arrived on Saturday morning.

So you'd expect me to be online by lunchtime then? Erm, not quite.

First off the Crow had bought a wireless router in the hopes of bridging his PS2 with his internet connection which is upset. Only to find the wireless router only worked for a USB internet connection, and the PS2 has an ethernet connection.

Nevermind – a quick trip to Maplins, and a long ethernet cable was purchased which would do the trick.

The wireless option out the window, all the Crow needed was to drill a few holes to take the wire from upstairs to downstairs. This was like blindly drilling for oil – seems the Crow’s house is a bit asymmetrical and the holes didn’t join. Finally dragging the cable through secret hollows between the floors, we were all connected up.

So why wouldn’t the PS2 detect the internet?

Simple – because the good people at Maplins had provided me with a crossover cable where I needed a straight through cable – supposedly this is important! So back to the store I went, and reinstalled the new cable at home.

Sorted? No not quite – because my router still wasn’t happy – had to reboot it to factory settings – and finally the PS2 could see the internet …

Only for the PS2 at this point to ask me for it’s serial number – a serial number obscured by the network box.

Finally 10pm on Sunday I was online – to find no-one up for a Rogue Trooper multi-player! Typical.

Still the Crow as a computer engineer had a better chance than many to do this – and still took the best part of 10 hours. Perhaps this is secretly some form of Mensa challenge? No wonder there aren’t many other PS2 gamers online!


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