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How can I block Internet access on a Sony PSP?

We have problems with our son and the Internet. He has a Sony PSP and has figured out how to get on line. Is there a way to remove the software on this PSP? or maybe a password we can set up so there is no avail. service for him. Thanks.


Dave's Answer:

There are a number of different ways you can prevent this depending on your network setup, actually, but before I talk about these options, I have a more basic question: why don't you limit your son's Sony PSP access altogether?

I mean, is it the Internet, the sites he's visiting, that are a problem, or is it the amount of time he's spending on the PSP overall? If it's the latter and he was my son, I'd just hold on to the PSP except for specific times we agreed he could use it.

Of course, if it is the specific sites he's accessing, that's where you're right that you need to limit the wifi access itself.

There are two ways to do this. You can set up a password on your wifi access point and not share it, which effectively shuts off his access, or you can set up a password on the Sony PSP itself that limits Internet access.

The problem with the first solution is that your neighborhood might be like mine, where there are plenty of other wifi networks - without passwords - accessible from different points in the house. Unless you can convince all your neighbors to add passwords too (which, frankly, they should do anyway) that solution probably won't work.

The second possibility is to add an Internet access password. You do that by going to the control menu, moving left to Settings, down to Security Settings, press the "X" button and now you can "Change Password", set "Parental Control Level" or set up an "Internet Browser Start Control". The last is what you want: it'll then prompt you to enter a four digit password.

Once you've done that, each time that the PSP is used to access the Internet through the Web browser, that code will be required. If your son doesn't have it, well, he's shut down.

Note: don't lose that code. As far as I know, there's no way to disable or reset the access password once it's set up!

Lots of options for you. I hope one of them can help out!



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you can reset a parentel control password by reseting all settings to default. Also playing with the parental controls will only limit oficial sony content not pages viewed on the internet. It would be best just to cut off your sons acess to the wifi.

Posted by: nate Raymond at December 25, 2006 7:16 AM

you can change the password by doing the same thing only this time a prompt for your password will pop up ( i figured this out by toying around with it).

Posted by: Shadow at January 26, 2007 1:24 PM

I bought my psp used. I can't get into my security settings to unlock the internet browser. Is there anyway to format my psp so i can have my own password instead of somebody else's

Posted by: Chris at January 27, 2007 8:39 PM

If he is going on porn or other bad websites take it away.Thats what i did.

Posted by: unknown at February 21, 2007 5:55 PM

There is a way to reset the password that people put in to the psp so the safest way is to just block the wi-fi

Posted by: emmanuel at March 19, 2007 8:23 AM

Unless your kid is like 10, I think you have some real issues.. Its just the internet, big deal, block bad sites if you must. but why cant he use it at all? thats just stupid.

Posted by: ...? at April 7, 2007 7:09 PM

Is there a way to only block certain rated cites, not the entire internet?

Posted by: pm59 at April 11, 2007 2:40 PM

well i have a psp my uncle had it first and he didnt tell me the password and some how when i deleted everything i blocked the internet how can i unblock it is there a place i can go?

Posted by: karina at May 12, 2007 3:57 PM

You can format your psp's firmware altogether, but i don't reccomend that because reading when all these comments were posted, you guys probably aren't tech literate or you would know how to format the firmware by now... :/

Posted by: Booshibonton at July 18, 2007 9:02 PM

I bought my psp used. I can't get into my security settings to unlock the internet browser. Is there anyway to format my psp so i can have my own password instead of somebody else's

Posted by: thomas at November 5, 2007 11:06 AM

what Booshibonton said "I bought my psp used. I can't get into my security settings to unlock the internet browser. Is there anyway to format my psp so i can have my own password instead of somebody else's"
yes u can by goin to your psp's setting go to system setting hit x on the 9th option it will say do you want to restore the default setting say yes x2 and there isnt going to b a password to access the internet and set up yourown password

Posted by: Ricardo at November 24, 2007 9:32 PM

if you are too dumb to do that by yourself maybe you should reconsider your decision in the first place...

Posted by: SSS at December 8, 2008 11:25 PM

Of course there's the option of just locking him out entirely and physically controlling it, but there are some clever ways to get exactly the effect you want. I think there is a way to filter certain sites, but I would think it would be limited to whatever URL blocking firewalls are set up on the AP you're trying to use the internet with... if it's your personal router, it's kind of a lengthy process. For mine, it's an option called Client IP filtering, and it allows you to block any suspicious URLs viewable by a router-specified PC (in this case it will be the PSP). First, you'll need to set up MAC address filtering on your router to include the MAC address of the PSP. Bind a totally seperate IP address from the IP pool to that specific MAC address. Now when you initially set up the internet connection on the device that your kid's gonna use, this seperate IP will be solely for his PSP surfing. Now you can go to "Client IP filtering" and set the rules you want. This way you can control everything right down to the types of protocols he can use--even define schedules so he can't use it while you're at work! Still, this won't stop him from taking it to a hotspot and accessing what he wants from there... from there, you're on your own.

Posted by: Kyle at February 11, 2009 8:48 AM

is there any ways that i can reset the password that other people set in psp?? or i still need the password to create a new pass??

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