It Is! The PlayStation Store is still down on May 16 2011, but the network is up
It is back online just not everything like the PlayStation Store
You need an Internet source, but you can also connect to the PS3 wired with an ethernet cable plugged into the back of the PS3 and into a router or modem.
Weeks to months.
If you want to know if you need WiFi to get online then no you don't. You can connect an ethernet cable from your cable modem or from a router to the ethernet port in the back of a PS3
The network is down and related question has current status
Naruto PS3 Project will be online.
No, PS3 online is 100% free.
they might bring back online multiplayer to other games when they start making games for xbox 360 and ps3
You do not connect the PS3 ethernet cable to the computer. Just as you connect an ethernet cable to your PS3 to allow it to go online your computer may also have a spot to connect the ethernet cable to allow it to go online. The way the completed system will be set up is that ethernet cables are connected to a router for both the computer and the PS3 and the router is connected to the modem to allow online access to both your computer and the PS3. If you do not have a router you will need to purchase one and until then if you have a computer with online access the computer could be connected directly to the modem which you can unplug and plug in the PS3 to the modem with an ethernet cable. Then you go to network setting on the PS3 and complete the internet connection. In order to use your computer again online you need to unplug the PS3 and Plug the computer back in.
You do not get online will dial up for the PS3. First it could not dial the number, second the speed of dial up would be too slow, third the PS3 does not have the ability to have a phone line connected. The jack that looks like a phone jack in the back of a PS3 is for the ethernet cable.
For wired connection a router and ethernet cable long enough to go from router to the back of PS3 and an internet service.
A ps3