Guys, please help me out. I have taken out and charged my psp for the first time in the past 1-2 years because I want to play god of war. I have all the settings right.. My dlink-655 has WAP/WAP2 auto and invisible SSID.
My iphone, macbook pro work fine.. this stupid psp won't connect!
It keeps saying connection error access point was not detected. I have tried numerous things, the only thing that works is restarting my router with no protection on default settings.

Please help, now I remember why I put this thing away in the first place
Thanks
Mo

Guys, please help me out. I have taken out and charged my psp for the first time in the past 1-2 years because I want to play god of war. I have all the settings right.. My dlink-655 has WAP/WAP2 auto and invisible SSID.
My iphone, macbook pro work fine.. this stupid psp won't connect!
It keeps saying connection error access point was not detected. I have tried numerous things, the only thing that works is restarting my router with no protection on default settings.

Please help, now I remember why I put this thing away in the first place
Thanks
Mo



Ummm, I don't know. Is the key entered correctly?

I've never had any connection issues with mine and it's a launch day PSP.

Ummm, I don't know. Is the key entered correctly?

I've never had any connection issues with mine and it's a launch day PSP.

Same here. I have an original PSP and had to change me WPA to the new one I set up at the new house. One try, no problems.

Without further info, I'm going to have to go with operator error.

Off the top of my head, WEP2 might be the problem. Does the PSP support WEP2?

Okay the psp is officially a piece of crap to me. I tried airport express, I tried my dlink router.. all my other electronics work fine.. this stupid pieece of crap psp won't let me put in any wep combos because "its incorrect combo" or some crap, it won't let me to wpa..

I'm sick of it!!!!!!

I'm calling Sony, this is absoultey ridiculous. Lets see how their service is compared to microsoft (which I must say I am impressed with). So far have been on phone 4 minutes just to get into line to talk to a rep

I too am gonna go with user error on this one. What is a wep combo? Are you using a 64 bit hex key, 128 bit hex key, or passphrase on the the routers? If you are trying to use a passphrase have you tried entering the key instead?

Or.... http://www.us.playstation.com/Support/PSP/ConnectingToInternet/s_psp_iw_EN.html

What I've done in the past when I have problems is to turn off all the protection on the router and then turn each one on one by one as you gain access. It's usually something that you missed.

Is the lan switch set to on?

Guys, please help me out. I have taken out and charged my psp for the first time in the past 1-2 years because I want to play god of war. I have all the settings right.. My dlink-655 has WAP/WAP2 auto and invisible SSID.
My iphone, macbook pro work fine.. this stupid psp won't connect!
It keeps saying connection error access point was not detected. I have tried numerous things, the only thing that works is restarting my router with no protection on default settings.

Please help, now I remember why I put this thing away in the first place
Thanks
Mo

Broadcast the SSID, I've had problems with that before with PSP (and Vista, for that matter). I may have had an issue with WAP/WAP2 auto before, and needed to hardset it, but that was a few firmware updates ago. But broadcasting the SSID and leaving all of the other security measures in place might work for you.

Tech support was useless. The guy was rude and tried to get me off the phone as soon as he could. He told me to open a bunch of tcp/udp ports. How am I supposed to do that if I can't even get an ip address for the psp to do it with????

I officially hate sony now. guys, I am using a 13 digit passphrase through my apple extreme, how Do I just get a key?

Thanks
Mo

Okay the psp is officially a piece of crap to me. I'm sick of it!!!!!! If you want to get rid of it my address is . . . I could always use a third one. :D

I have both the launch and slim versions and haven't had any trouble with either of them connecting to my wireless network. I don't think that it has been packed away for so long would be an issue. I'm using WPA and everything works fine. For troubleshooting maybe try disabling your wireless network security for a test and see if it will connect. If it does then it's not a PSP issue.

It connects without any wep, wpa or other security. but it can't connect with wep or wpa. When I use wep, any character, no matter what I do is not accepted. I followed the directions exactly on the psp, it says use 0-9 and a-f or A-F.. I did that!

This thing is going in the garbage, and I'm moving on with my life.

If I'm doing something wrong, how come my iphone and macbook pro work fine?

I am using a 13 digit passphrase through my apple extreme, how Do I just get a key?

? The 13 digit passphrase is the key.


I'm using wpa/wpa2(auto detect) in my router, not broadcasting ssid, and it works 100% of the time. PSP is set for wpa-psk (tkip), manually entered ssid.

Then I am convinced that psp is not working right. I have read other people who are having same problems on other boards.. I don't want to buy a new one.. guess no psp for me.

User input error, or user mistake error for not turning on a switch... I also have the launch one and no internet connection issues at all.

P.S Could it be the WiFi Module inside? Call SONY!

Make sure you don't have MAC filtering on also!

You guys are funny. I know you are trying to help but you don't think I would flip that stupid switch on? Who wants to buy this thing? $50.00?

Then I am convinced that psp is not working right. I have read other people who are having same problems on other boards.. I don't want to buy a new one.. guess no psp for me.

Ok... Good, well then you dont need one... Since APPLE and M$ are much better, great! :rolleyes:

You might want to sell it to someone if you hate it that much :cool:

P.S The only time a device will refuse to get IP assigned is if it the ACCESS POINT/ROUTER has MAC filtering on. Or... What I would recommend is get into the ROUTER GUI and verify what is going on in there. Do you see the Device even hitting the network? Have you tried disable security?

Try with no WEP, make sure that SSID is hosted.

He already said he can connect with no security. Can you post a screenshot of the wireless security page of your router. For simplicity sake you could manually type in your own key 1234567 ect. until you have the correct number of digits and try using that on the psp.

I read about some people not being able to connect the PS3 to that router too, so who knows might be something funky between Sony and DLink. But seeing as how you say it doesn't work with the Airport Extreme I'm still going to go with ue.

won't let me put in any wep combos because "its incorrect combo" or some crap, it won't let me to wpa..



Umm, with such helpful error messages you've given I don't see how anybody hasn't been able to help. :rolleyes:

Seriously if you want help you need to provide exact error messages. "or some crap" doesn't tell anybody anything.

What PSP firmware version do you have? 2.00 added wpa(tkip), 2.5 added wpa(aes) if your firmware is older than that, you either have to set your access point to WEP or update your firmware. WEP and WPA are not interchangeable.

I updated the firmware to 3.9 by having a non-encrypted connection. I have tried various keys with my own numbers/letters. Any WEP code I enter is invalid in the psp because it says I am not using the correct combo of 0-9 A-F or A-f letters (even though I am), and WPA doesn't work.. it keeps saying the connection is timing out even though I have used the right key and my other components work fine.

I just decided to take off any kind of protection and use mac address filtering only. Seems to work okay, and I think my network should be pretty secure.
What do you guys think?

no one cant connect now even if they tried... The cool thing about mac filtering is that the specific devices are only allowed to connect. Make sure you put good security password on for the routers GUI and u are set.

My Linksys A/G Router is running WEP only protection, but with not hosted SSID, Mac Filtering.

Why the hell do you even hide your SSID? Afraid your Joe Schmoe neighbor is going to hack your wireless infrastructure?? LMAO

Just curious why do you hate best buy? Because I am starting to as well

Although I love apple, the apple extreme cannot compare to the DLR 655 in terms of simulataneous outputs.. it bogs down.
Mo

Okay the psp is officially a piece of crap to me. I tried airport express, I tried my dlink router.. all my other electronics work fine.. this stupid pieece of crap psp won't let me put in any wep combos because "its incorrect combo" or some crap, it won't let me to wpa..

I'm sick of it!!!!!!

Sounds like operator error to me... I've got a new one and the kid down the street bought an older used one and no problems connecting to the internet here wirelessly using wep or wpa.

Why do you need the internet to play God of War anyways? I presume its a single player game, is there some online mode that you want to be able to use with other players?

Tech support was useless. The guy was rude and tried to get me off the phone as soon as he could. He told me to open a bunch of tcp/udp ports. How am I supposed to do that if I can't even get an ip address for the psp to do it with????

I officially hate sony now. guys, I am using a 13 digit passphrase through my apple extreme, how Do I just get a key?

Thanks
Mo

The router should generate keys from the passphrase. The passphrase usually only works with a device from the same manufacturer. I doubt the PSP would connect if you were using a passphrase from an Apple device. There should be an interface screen for the router that shows what keys have been generated from the passphrase. Any one of those keys should work in the PSP.

"Why the hell do you even hide your SSID? Afraid your Joe Schmoe neighbor is going to hack your wireless infrastructure?? LMAO"

Why broadcast it? It doesn't make life any harder by having broadcast off.

Personally, I have found MAC filtering, plus SSID off, plus WEP-128, at B+G to be a perfectly acceptable level of security that works with freakin' everything. SSID on in that case would be somewhat easy to break with the most time consuming part being finding MAC to spoof. Software and time finds that MAC soon enough...

To the original poster: Try WEP 128bit. One thing you have to pay attention to is the 4 keys that you have an option of using. Selecting a specific 26 digit key locks the network to that one key. Setting the router to use Key 4, for example, means you can't use Key 1 to login to the router with.

Oh, and be a little nicer to the guys that are trying to help you.

Sounds like someone doesn't know how to handle their wireless network. I can't blame ya, networking is confusing for the average person since they make it so complicated. This isn't simply on the PSP only.

Couple things to check:

1) Is the key that you found on your router 26 characters and did you enter the same 26 character key on the PSP? It should only consist of characters 0-9 and A-F

2) The fact that you mention you can't get an ip tells me you're not familiar with networking. You should be able to define a static IP on the PSP rather than wait for the need of obtaining an IP through DHCP.

3) Temporarily broadcast your SSID until you can get a connection. You sound like you're going from one extreme of opening everything up, to turning everything off. There are several layers of access that you can open up.

Thanks for the advice, but I'm okay with using MAC specific networking. It is working pretty good now, and I can keep tabs on what is connected to my network.. no thanks to the psp which ruined my whole network which was working perfectly before. Again, everything was working fine in my network:

1) Tivo
2) PS3
3) Xbox 360
4) Macbook pro
5) Tivo in bedroom
6) Slingbox
7) Sage media extender x 2
8) Iphone

And what was the one thing that didn't work and caused me headaches?

PSP!!

Yep

If you're fine with what you did, then more power to you but I'm willing to bet you can go back to whatever your old setup is, and still get the PSP to work. You just need to understand what your setup is to begin with.

Try taking your PSP somewhere else with a wireless connection to see if it works. If it does its just a networking error and you need to tweak some settings. It took me 4 days to get my PSP running so that remote play would work, and it still doesnt from my job for some reason. Internet is just fine but somewhere talking thru the router to the PS3 it fails...not something Im going to die without.

But seriously $50 shipped to 68134 and I'll solve all your PSP problems.

So far just using mac filtering and a hidden ssid is working great. Other electronics are connecting faster and with no lag as well. Remoteplay is pretty gosh darn cool. I just need to figure out how to use it out of the home. I don't see myself using it more than my iphone though.. games yes, but videos and etc.. no. Anyone connect this thing somehow to their car stereo? I have a Pioneer AVIC-D3?

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Mo

A friend of mine had trouble getting his PSP to connect when he first got it.

Turns out he was putting spaces in between the key letters for his router because he wasn't familair with how to enter stuff.

Your not doing that are you?

I had a problem connecting my PSP to my WPA wireless network where it would show up on the list, but never connect. It turns out that the PSP is wireless B only and I had my router set to only use wireless G. Selecting to use both B and G in my router solved my problem and everything works fine.

Setting my router to mixed mode (b+g) solved my headache also.

Hi everyone, I was just trying to sort this issue out on my own PSP. I happened to notice that when I was typing my network key into the PSP that it stopped tying at 25 characters. My network key is 26 characters. (standard for WEP-128). I had entered the network key at least a dozen times before I noticed it wasn't typing the last character. I guess it never dawned on me that it would limit how many characters I could enter.

I haven't fixed my problem yet but I thought I would share this obvious "user error" with you.

I think I will change my network security to WPA-PSK (TKIP) or (AES) as I see from my search that WEP is just not very secure to begin with.

Cheers,

Using Network Magic and a Linksys Router.