Success! All downloads working
This post is a continuation of a previous post about the (8002AB0B) error that I received when trying to install almost any game downloaded over the PSN.
Last night I think I finnaly found the source of the error code that has plagued me the past few months. It came down to an Ethernet cable, once replaced everything worked great. The playstation website along with there customer service had never mentioned this as a possible issue, but if you are having this same error message I would suggest trying the following.
- Change the way you connect, if you are using a wireless connection, try hooking up through a direct connection.
- If you are wired through a router, bypass it by plugging directly into the cable modem.
- Try switching your ethernet cable for a different one.
For me, I hooked up the ps3 directly into the cable modem first and used a different ethernet cable. I was able to download five games and install without issues. I noticed that the games that gave me the errors were the larger 1GB + games. Once I saw it worked hooked directly to the modem, I reconnected to through the router but with the new ethernet and downloaded a couple more games. So far all are working great now. The interesting thing is I could still connect and play online games fine with the bad cable, but it must have been corrupting the download data to cause the error.
Unfortunately the main reason to get this fixed was to play the new Uncharted 2 multiplayer beta which I had a key for. I got it installed only to see that the time period had expired.
