![]() ![]() When I configured the proxy server I set it up to only accept connections from a local IP address assigned to the PS3. I did have only the proxy setup at first and it didn’t seem faster but that wasn’t for very long so I can’t state that it didn’t help – perhaps it took a little while for the PS3 connection to really get moving through the proxy. Since I use a Mac I downloaded SquidMan (a Squid GUI), which will also download and install Squid itself (the proxy server software). The first change I made was to implement one of the standard suggestions found in forums, which is to setup a local proxy server and have the PS3 connect through it. Unfortunately, I implemented them without properly testing them individually so I don’t know if only one change or both is what made the difference. I’ve made two changes recently that appear to have improved download speeds. None of that seemed to make a difference. I also tried turning off the option to search for media servers. I’ve tried setting a local IP and using DNS servers other than my ISP’s. Like many PS3 users, I’ve been frustrated by horribly slow PS3 downloads since I purchased the console (firmware and game updates included). Regardless, as soon as I disconnected the UPS from the VM both systems started functioning at a more normal speed and the status indicator stayed in the menu bar instead of restarting. Perhaps I clicked on it when intending to connect a different device at some point. There’s no reason I would have intentionally connected the USB interface for the my UPS to to the VM. Sure enough, my CyberPower UPS was showing as connected to to the Windows 7 guest OS. ![]() While inspecting the energy settings for both OS X (Lion) and Windows 7 (VM) I decided to check the connected USB devices for the virtual machine. Yesterday I noticed that the status indicator for my battery backup kept appearing and disappearing in the menu bar. Recently I noticed my virtual machine instance under VMWare Fusion (3.1.3) seemed to be running unusually slow on my Mac. Setting it to only be accessible by the host OS (OS X) solved the problem. The Short Version: The UPS’s USB connection had been inadvertently shared with the virtual machine. ![]()
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