An error occured during communication with the server this is a DNS error 80710102

Santa gave me a PlayStation3 for Christmas, I wanted to try some of my old PlayStation2 games but had to do a system update first. I whizzed through the Internet connection settings and expected to have no problems connecting but instead got the following error:

An error occured during communication with the server this is a

DNS error 80710102

Turns out a quite a few people have had this problem, it's not a new problem and various people have found various solutions that worked so I am just posting the solution that worked for me first time.

I selected manual settings for the DNS/IP address settings and entered the following information into the console (not into my router as others have done):

IP Address: 196.168.1.50

Mask: 255.255.255.0

Router: 192.168.1.1

Primary DNS: 208.67.222.222

Secondary DNS: 208.67.222.220

For the DNS I used OpenDNS's servers. 

Now I'm off to see if I can get my RSI to flare up again... :)

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