This may sound like a weird question.. I know OG phat PS3's were known for having bad wifi cards inside em but I have never read someone else having this happen.
I have an 80gb/motorstorm bundle PS3, years ago my living situation forced me to use wifi to connect it to the internet.
Everytime I downloaded something, it took forever, worse so than any other wifi device I owned at the time, BUT when I switched my TV to another input source the connection speed would quadruple(from my estimation). The moment I switched inputs back to the PS3 the download speed numbers would slowly drop back down to terrible and stay there.
The wifi light in the front always blinked from time to time, but when input was changed it blinked way faster.
(I was using HDMI on a 2004-5ish 50" Sony tv. This never happened with component cables as far as I recall, and it was about 20 feet from the wifi router fyi)
was I crazy? or did switching TV display input boost connection speed for other people?