Has anyone had any luck trying to connect a PSP to an Airport (Extreme or Express) via WPA Personal? Supposedly, the 2.0 PSP firmware supports WPA-PSK, which is also supposedly the equivalent of WPA Personal.
Once there, just enter the settings/search for your express/airport signal and save the setting. You use this setting later on in the browser to connect to. If you've already set up your ibook/mac to connect to your airport/wireless network you should be familiar with the settings.
A quick note, i manage to get better signal from my PSP->Airport than i do from my ibook->airport, very handy!
Are you sure you're using WPA Personal and not WEP? I'm running WPA for the higher security. If so, are you using the plaintext WPA password or some hex version (if that's even available)?
aaah sorry, im usin the plain old basic kind of connection. I dont think i have any kind of protection whatsoever actually. Instead i can only recommend headin over to some PSP/game related forums and askin around in there. Sorry!
It saved, but never connected. I downloaded the prior version of the airport software, as someone recommended before, and it worked. It's a downgrade in terms of software, but it worked.
No idea when it was introduced. I justgot my powerbook a month or two ago and purchased the airport extreme a couple of weeks ago. I did an auto update recently, then after reading a comment on the boards, reverted to the airport firmware 6.1.1.
I set up the network through the normal means on the PSP, added the plain text password (not the hex) and it all worked.
One problem I'm having is with bookmarks. With the PSP 2.0 firmware update, the browser has its own bookmark HTML file. I changed it manually and haven't been able to save since. Maybe a core file was manipulated and that's why you can't save. You may want to try upgrading or reinstalling your PSP firmware.
Thanks for the tip, Martin. Unfortunately, it's not working for me. When I scanned for my SSID, it showed WPA-PSK (TKIP), not AES. I first selected AES for the security setting and then entered my passkey in plaintext. No go. I then tried TKIP again with no luck.
I entered my password exactly as I would do on my Macs.
When it was not working for me, it would show that is connected to the correct SSID but it would timeout while "exchanging keys" or something to that effect.
My Airport Express network is "closed" (i.e. it does not advertise itself), it only allows access from known mac addresses (I had added the mac of the PSP beforehand already) and it obviously requires WPA Personal authentication.
As stated previously, under Firmware 2.0 it would timeout "exchanging" keys and after updating to 2.5 it worked in one go without me making any changes to the PSP, nor to the Airport settings.
After much digging, I finally figured it out. Unfortunately, I broke the first rule of troubleshooting and changed two variables at one time, so I'm not sure which actually made the difference.
1) I changed the Airports to WPA & WPA2 support and my password to 13 characters in length.
2) I reset the PSP to default settings, before reconfiguring.
I have a feeling the 13 character password was a red herring and the real change was clearing the PSP's settings.
It's as you'd expect. The broadband makes downloads come in fast, but the rendering time is slower than on a PC. Additionally, having to navigate with a directional button is a serious drag. That said, it's totally fine for sites optimized for it, like one by Sony.
