Trouble connecting my Sony PSP to Rosewill RNX-N4PS

TheInternal

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Hey everyone,

I just got that Rosewill RNX-N4PS wireless router that was on sale at Newegg. I'd been using my dual NIC primary computer (Monolith) as a ghetto-router, but decided to upgrade to something that would free up the computer from that task and allow me to connect my Sony PSP to the internet.

I've successfully gotten online with both the computers I've tested, but have discovered that no matter what WPA encryption I set the router to (WPA(TKIP) or WPA2(AES)), my Sony PSP can't connect to the wireless router. I made sure my PSP was set to infrastructure mode and have tried both automatic and manual entry of the router (including the security keys). out of 20 or so times, I've not even been able to have the router show up in the list of available connection but two times. I've already looked around for guides and suggestions, but haven't had much luck. I've tried enabling static IP on the router, didn't help. I've tried to enter in the PSP's MAC address as one to automagically accept, but it won't accept it since I don't have an IP (and I have no idea how the PSP processes or if it even uses a unique IP).

Anyone experience this problem before? Any magic solutions out there? I seem to be able to get on when I have my router's security settings all but disabled, but would greatly prefer having the security turned up.
 

Nuwave

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Hi,

Make sure your router is using the mixed band b/g. I'm not sure which it uses but I know the nintendo DS uses the b band.

Make sure you are broadcasting your SSID,

Try changing channels 1, 6, 11.

Also try setting up the connection without any encryption. That way you can know if you can connect at all or not.
 

TheInternal

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router is set to b+g+n, broadcasting SSID and on channel 11 currently. I seem to be able to get on when no encryption is enabled, but that is not something I like doing :(
 

mcmilljb

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Check out this site - link
It has a good tutorial on setting up wireless for the PSP.

Does the PSP support WPA2? I think it might only WPA. You just have to set your router to something the PSP will support.
 

TheInternal

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I talked to someone at Sony, and it sounds that the PSP on PAPER supports WPA1... but not so much so in reality. sigh.
 

mcmilljb

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Originally posted by: TheInternal
I talked to someone at Sony, and it sounds that the PSP on PAPER supports WPA1... but not so much so in reality. sigh.

I figured it probably couldn't do WPA2.

Just try to work out WPA(AES) or WPA(TKIP). I'm sure it can be a pain to enter a password on the PSP. It was annoying doing it on my xbox 360.
 

TheInternal

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like I said in my last post, it can't really do ANY wpa. I have to do the WES or whatever that other encryption is.