If your PlayStation 3 is operating slow, losing connection, or just not working right most of the time the chances are that you need to change some settings on your Internet router or firewall. Routers use NAT(Network Address Translation) to allow multiple devices to function behind the router as if they all have the public address that your ISP(Internet Service Provider) has provided to you. The PS3 requires various ports to be open to communicate with other users online as well as other ports to be opened to the PlayStation 3 for other games to function properly. Below I list these ports required for the PS3 to operate, ports required for certain games to operate, and followed by a brief explanation of what you need to look for in terms of configuring your router or firewall.

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It has been awhile since I created a custom service to use in a firewall policy on a Fortinet firewall and I was having trouble. I was thinking of the service as a NAT rule where you map the port one to one such as wanting to allow SSH you would have the firewall NAT through port 22 for each the incoming and outgoing. The FortiOS is more granular than that and allows you to specify the source port of the client instead of the port that is hitting the firewall. The source port is instead the source port of the client so it could be anything from port 1024 to port 655535. Visit Fortinet knowledge center for a step by step of how to create the custom service and assign it to a policy.