I am having a bad time with my PS3 which I've had for about 2 years, PS3 slim with 120GB HDD. I've ran across a problem with my WiFi connecting to it. My PS3 doesn't accept my WPA2 key, I've changed it to a new key then my PS3 successfully connected to it. After 5 minutes it then drops connection and says my WPA key is wrong which it isn't.
So I changed my key again, it connected to the WiFi successfully, then an hour later it dropped connection to it then told me my WPA key is wrong when it isn't! My other devices connect to it just fine, like my Mac, iPhone, etc. But my PS3 doesn't connect to it properly. I get signal strength of 80-90%+
Is there any reason why it keeps doing this?
I am upstairs and the router is downstairs, I cannot use a Ethernet cable because it's far too long to connect to it.
36 Answers
A few thoughts:
1) ensure your router's DHCP server is configured to allow enough clients to support all your hardware. If you have 10 clients enabled for DHCP and 11 connections are attempted, it is plausible that one device is grabbing an address and then the ps3 is left waiting for an expired lease. This can happen more often with shorter lease times (check the lease time and compare to the timing of ps3's loss of address). I like to assign static addresses (via the router interface, not on each device) to known devices on my network.
2) if the ps3 is spamming for a new lease, the router may be ignoring it by implementing a timeout. The solution might be to disable wifi and wait a few minutes.
3) You might have a mixed-network issue. If all of your devices are wireless-G, try setting your router wifi to G only.
I had this same problem. I finally found out that the problem was that I had the same SSID and WPA key for both 2.4GHZ and 5GHZ on my router. I changed the SSID and WPA key on the 2.4GHZ and connected to that on my PS3 and it worked.
I guess PS3 doesn't work with 5GHZ?
1Not sure if it will work for you, but I had the same issue, after trying everything with the router with the exception of running an ethernet cable, I entered my settings and disabled the UPnP and it worked. Hope this helps.
Cheers
Switch to a WEP if you aren't worried about the security as much and put your router on "don't show SSID" in you router setting 198.168.1.1 or 198.168.0.1.
WEP isn't as secure as WPA but this has fixed the problem for people I know on their ps3s.
I have seen very similar issues when the signal suffers interference. Even if you have high signal strength this can happen.
Simple things you can try:
- Configure your router to use a different frequency range
- Run an Ethernet cable - unless you have an exceedingly large house this will be a simple workable solution
Don't use WPA key found on router. Use the password you set up to connect to Wi-Fi.
