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Connect to the Internet with my Sony PSP?

February 19, 2006 / Dave Taylor / iPod & MP3 Player Help / 968 Comments

I love my Sony PSP, but I cannot figure out how to get successfully connected to the Internet. I know it’s a wifi system, I know I need to be able to see an access point, but I cannot get it all working. Help!

You are definitely not alone in your quest to get the Sony Playstation Portable (PSP) device successfully connected to the Internet. In fact, it’s hard enough that this is probably one of the most common questions I see here at AskDaveTaylor, so I think it deserves a long, full explanation. If you follow along step-by-step, I’m sure you’ll succeed.
First off, you need to get to the main menu from wherever you are on your PSP. You can do that by pressing the Home button, a tiny button just to the lower left of the screen.
Now you’ll want to move left (pressing the “<” button) until you get to Settings, then down (pressing the “V” button) until you get to Network Settings:

Sony PSP: Network Settings

Now you’ll have two choices: “Ad Hoc” is when you want to connection two PSPs together with any sort of Internet wifi base station / access point involved, and “Infrastructure Mode” is when you connect to your local wifi device. The latter’s what we want:
Sony PSP: Settings: Infrastructure Mode

You’ll probably only have the one choice of New Connection, but if you don’t, choose it anyway:
Sony PSP: Settings: New Connection

First option is to specify a mnemonic connection name. The default here is “Connection 2” but yours might be “Connection 1”, or similar. I recommend you actually enter a different name so you’ll be able to remember what location works where.
Sony PSP: Settings: Connection Name

To enter a new connection name, press the “X” button and you’ll get to the “keyboard” screen:
Sony PSP: Settings: Enter Connection Name

When you’re done struggling to enter your selected name 🙂 move to the green “Enter” box and press the “X” button. Now you’ll be ready for the big important step: a Network Scan:
Sony PSP: Settings: Network Scan

If everything’s working well with your device and you’ve turned on the WLAN switch (How to turn on the PSP WLAN Switch) you’ll see the following status message:
Sony PSP: Settings: Scanning: Wait

Hopefully, you’ll see at least one network listed, if not more. If you don’t see any networks, then you’re out of luck. If the only networks you see have some sort of security setting, either WPA or WEP, then you must know the security password to access that network.
Once you’re ready, the next step you’ll want to take is to select an access point:
Sony PSP: Settings: Select Access Point

In this case I’m going to select Steve Hardesty since it’s the strongest network with the Security setting of “None”:
Sony PSP: Settings: Settings

Now you’ll have a chance to confirm your security setting from the different choices. Notice that the default is just about always the correct choice, which you can select by pushing the “>” button again and again:
Sony PSP: Security Settings

Now you can also step right past the Address Settings:
Sony PSP: Address Settings

You’ll get a confirmation screen that shows all the settings you’ve specified:
Sony PSP: Setting List

Press the “>” button again, and you’ll be able to save your settings:
Sony PSP: Save Network Settings

That’s what you’ll want to do: press “X”.
Now, the most important step in the process – to Test Connection.
Sony PSP: Test Network Connection

You’ll most definitely want to do this! Press “X” to start the test…
Sony PSP: Testing Access Point

If something’s wrong, you might end up seeing this:
Sony PSP: Network Connection Error

If you do see that, then try moving closer to the wifi access point and rerunning the test, perhaps that’ll fix things. Otherwise, try a different network connection.
Hopefully, however, you’ll find that your connection works just fine:
Sony PSP: Settings: Connection Success

If you’ve gotten here, congratulations, you’re online!
Let’s just quickly test it by going online and checking the latest news. Again press Home but this time use the “>” button to move all the way to the right, then “V” to go down to Internet Browser:
Sony PSP: Internet Browser

Since you’ve already specified a connection, it’ll use that:
Sony PSP: Connecting to Access Point

Everything should work just fine, and you’ll either get to a blank page, the default page for your Web browser, or the page you’ve specified as your default. In my case, it’s Google News:
Sony PSP: Network Connection @ Google News

That’s all there is to it!
Additional Useful PSP Articles:
  •   How do I download Music to my Sony PSP?
  •   How to format your PSP memory stick
  •   Update your PSP firmware via wifi network
  •   Update your PSP firmware without a wifi network
  •   How to get music to play on your PSP

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Starbucks coffee cup I do have a lot to say, and questions of my own for that matter, but first I'd like to say thank you, Dave, for all your helpful information by buying you a cup of coffee!
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968 comments on “Connect to the Internet with my Sony PSP?”

  1. Thomas says:
    June 20, 2016 at 9:01 am

    I still get the connection to access point error message even when im right next to the router

    Reply
  2. Shyam says:
    April 23, 2015 at 6:13 am

    Hey Dave I don’t have browser or network settings or wifi how shall I connect it to internet

    Reply
  3. Shyam says:
    April 23, 2015 at 6:10 am

    In my psp I neither have network settings nor wifi nor browser how shall I connect to internet

    Reply
    • Loan says:
      December 27, 2015 at 2:49 pm

      Hi my psp is not Internet is not connecting and then tried to many times I do not know what to do

      Reply
  4. DEN says:
    January 25, 2015 at 5:33 am

    i tried it many times but,when i select the SSID (address) and try to open it.it doesnt open,it just keep on blinking of the add, nothing happen.what should i do?

    Reply
  5. Blake says:
    March 30, 2014 at 7:31 am

    Whenever I attempt to connect to my Wi-Fi my PSP tells me that the attempt to find the IP address timed out. I would appreciate your help. Please.

    Reply
    • Dave Taylor says:
      March 31, 2014 at 8:52 am

      Might be that your wifi network is using protocols that aren’t supported by the PSP. Can you connect at a coffee shop or other public wifi network, Blake?

      Reply
      • bob says:
        October 18, 2015 at 8:24 pm

        would it be new routers be the problem instead of old for protocols?

        Reply
  6. Nena says:
    April 11, 2013 at 8:41 am

    this is great and i can get to the acces point but then it says
    “a connection error has occurred
    the attempt to obtain the IP address timed out”
    i think its because i need a WEP key please tell me how to get that.
    Plz Plz Help me

    Reply
  7. Judah says:
    March 7, 2013 at 4:40 pm

    I followed your steps to connect to the internet on my sony PSP but, it still didn’t work. Her eis what it does; it says connecting to access point, then it says obtaining IP address. It makes a –BOOP– noise and then says A connection error has occured. The attempt to obtain the IP addres timed out.
    PPPLLLEEEAAASSSEEE HELP!!!

    Reply
  8. Rita says:
    February 19, 2013 at 9:42 pm

    Thanks for helping me with connecting my psp!
    Rita’s kid…Alex!

    Reply
  9. Tiffany says:
    February 19, 2013 at 1:58 pm

    I have wireless internet and every time I try to connect to mine it always says not supported. why is this and how can I fix this problem? a lot of thanks from a very stressed out mom!!!

    Reply
  10. devon says:
    February 3, 2013 at 12:16 am

    can you plz help me win i wanna connet to the indernet its keeps saying not supported an plz help me

    Reply
  11. Riggs says:
    December 30, 2012 at 7:56 pm

    I’ve been trying ta connect my son psp to the internet it keeps saying (the attempt to obtain the IPaddress timed out ) what i’m i doing wrong , we have wifi

    Reply
  12. Kruno says:
    December 25, 2012 at 4:38 am

    Thank you.
    Enabling g-b mode in router
    connection is successful.

    Reply
  13. Kyre says:
    December 21, 2012 at 11:38 pm

    Hi I just purchased 2 psp’s for my children for christmas from a pawn shop, now I am worried cause I’m getting an error while try to connect to my internet. (The key information exchange timed out) I have tried just about everything. Christmas is 3days away & I’m trying to avoid returning them. Please Please oh Please HEEEEELP!!
    Thank You Dearly DAVE
    Kyre

    Reply
  14. ossama says:
    December 19, 2012 at 3:01 am

    how I set internet setting on my psp 1000

    Reply
  15. Geo says:
    December 18, 2012 at 1:23 pm

    Hey dave,
    when i scan to search for networks, my psp 3000 finds the available networks but i then cannot click to chose any like they are blocked !
    please help

    Reply

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