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Hmm, wonder what a mini looks like dressed in gold chrome... And is it worth it ( I've only got 1 of them).

I'll look throughmy paints and see what's what.

yeah I've changed the colour of mine since we last used them for the exact reason that I noticed there was a few british racing green ones cant remeber what colour I painted it though so I'll have a look and post it here

where do we find rounds 3-2-1 or did you run out of time.

Car color Astro Blue Metallic

My colour: Tahiti Blue Pearl (Purpleish Blue)

Got me mini prepped for painting, had to use a bit of bog after last race lol. Its gone to the paint booth and looking at going a yellow.

So far:

Chev - Lime green. OK you're Team Kermit
Darko - Orange. Team Fanta Pants
Rinkles - Astro Blue Metallic. Team Astro Bluey
Aza - Tahiti Blue Pearl (purple??) - Team Sexual Frustration
Bonus - Yellow....Team Cadel Poulet
Stumbles - Gold??...Team Bradbury
Whacked - TBA. Team "You have been disconnected from the server"
Anon - TBA, probably black...maybe brown, or silver?? Team Dithering
Arckon - (Dark Yellow) Team Drunken Tiger.
Have I missed anyone?

Hahaha, nice work Anon.
Aza... Team sexual frustration... lmfao

Colour is: Giallo Positano ( think the colour of Galliano (sorry spent many yrs as a barman) but a bit darker) (Dark Yellow)

Ok, I have been playing around today (despite believing there is nothing wrong with my connection) to try and see if I can get rid of me only being able to see a quarter to half the field only.
I have found if other clients in the house connect wirelessly to the router when I connect the PS3 (always connected by cable not wireless) and do a connection test, I get a type 2, will not show me a download and upload speed, and also a message saying that my "router may not support IP fragments, blah blah blah".
If i disconnect the other household clients (which I always do before racing anyway), and hit the apply button on the port forwarding screen, then re-turn on the PS3 and do the connection test, it comes up type 2, shows me my download and upload speeds, and NO message about supporting ip fragments.

Why I need to reapply port forwarding settings each session after other clients connecting to the router I do not know.

So here is hoping that this has fixed my problems and that on Monday night I have no problems seeing you all whilst racing and if I can still only see a quarter to half the field then I think I will be dropping from the series and going back to Forza 3, would prefer to stay with GT5 but all these connection issues have just got to the point of not worth the effort, plus not much fun only seeing a partial field, which obviously causes me to get in other peoples way as well.

Fingers crossed Arckon. I'm in the habit now of turning off my firewall's, double checking IP addresses, clearing the in-game cache, etc, etc, before a race night. Still hasn't prevented me from being booted on the odd occasion.

Again, fingers crossed for Monday night!!

Anon666 wrote:Fingers crossed Arckon. I'm in the habit now of turning off my firewall's, double checking IP addresses, clearing the in-game cache, etc, etc, before a race night. Still hasn't prevented me from being booted on the odd occasion.

Again, fingers crossed for Monday night!!

Must admit have never cleared the cache, will do that tommorrow.
Turning off the firewalls? does that include the firewall built in to your router through the router browser page?

Ok, I've been to the spray shop, and the mini has a new look.... Bring on Monday night.

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Bonus888 wrote:Hey Arcon have you set a static IP address on your ps3, or set to auto? It sounds like the other devices are trying to use the same IP address. I have set the ports the ps 3 uses to port forward through the router and just let the ps3 set the port it uses automatically. but if you have any other devices set with a specific ip address make sure it is a higher number, the ps3 will set a low number and look for any other devices that are set to auto and not pick that one but won’t see any addresses you set to static IP and could accidently pick that one and cause connection issues.
I have no set ip addresses and just port forwarded the ps3's, look up port forwarding ps3.

Thanks for the advice bonus, but yeah have always had the PS3 set up with a static ip much higher than other devices use. The Xbox is set up with a slightly higher static ip address and set up through the DMZ.
Checked again this morning and yep had to reapply the port forwarding, very wierd, but hey it is only a button press in the browser so if this successfully gets me up and running properly then so be it.

I'll go Cream.

Nice Pimp-mobil there Stumbles.

Cream hey.....

Team I've Got The Clap(ton)??

Must paint my car, keep forgetting. Should find time today as some of us have a day off!! Have fun at work the rest of you. (except Rinkles, mmmm retirement, really want to try that one day).

Some Practice we did last night, tonight should be Epic Fun.
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The starting grid, calm now!!!! but not for long




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first corner and some serious passing, break lights not working Holden?

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Ohh just didn't use them lol.

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Peddle Power

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Ribbit Ribbit

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Doesn't look to frustrated Yet!!!

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Vrrrrmmm, looks shiny

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Just Holden together

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Looks ok from this side

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Now your brakes work Holden.

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Over here Aza, now looking a little frustrated

what time do we start tonight?

9pm mate

So now my PS3 has shit itself. When I turn it on it does its usual boot up and then I have a screen with no menus on it and I can't turn it off by the switch, I have to pull the plug out from the wall. Done this 3 times and get the same result everytime. This is not normal. Anyone know what is happening?

Oh well the frustration has got the better of me and have had enough of Sony "fucken" Gaystation. Have fun boys!!!!! Bring on Forza 4.

take it back under warranty you only had it a short while

Great pics guys looks like you're having heaps of fun in the mini's.
Hehe heterosexual purple on the loose... *subtle tone of sarcasim*

Crap news Whacked. You've got the luck of the Irish. I've had my PS3 for around 4 years and it's never skipped a beat. I've dodged the YLOD and the ApolyPS3...although it's bound to die now I've said that!

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There is a shop down the road from me I am going to take it there tomorrow. See what they can do with it otherwise I am gonna use it as a paperweight, cause that is all it is good for at the moment