PS3 stomps all over WAP..?

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We've recently noticed a tiny issue at home with wireless broadband. A router, identifying itself as "PS3-#######" seems to turn up occasionally, match its channel to our wireless router and just stamp all over the connection.

Further digging identifies the mystery router as my own PS3 (which explains the channel matching) but the signal only appears when the PS3 is on Standby - not when On or switched off. In any case, with the PS3 on Standby we have absolute no wireless access in the house.

I suspect it has something to do with Remote Play for the PSP - the PSP can connect to the PS3 either through the router or directly to the PS3 itself using the "Private Network" feature. Does anyone have any experience with this kind of issue and any suggestions for resolving it (besides always turning the PS3 off at the switch)?
 
Switching off automatic logging on with a user name on the PS3 might sort it out. That prevents the PSP powering up the PS3. Not totally sure if this is what your looking for though.
 
Can you just turn off Remote Start? Actually, I think that's what Tired Tyres had in mind. I could be wrong, though.

Edit: Or change channels on one of the devices? If it's like mine, the default is channel 6. Kicking one to 7 might do the trick. Not sure if that's an option as I don't have a PSP and obviously haven't set up the PS3 for it.
 
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I would agree that it sounds as if the remote play side of things is causing the problem, in which case switching it off it you don't use it would be the answer.

When remote play is set-up and the PS3 is in Standby it keeps the Wi-Fi side of thinsg active waiting for a connection.

It is a bit strange as I have my PS3 set-up for remote play (with two different PSPs) and have no problem at all using my router when the PS3 is in standby. When working from home thats the normal state of things, so any issues would have cause a big problem for me.

One possiable fix may be to assign the PS3 a fixed IP on your router and then set that on the PS3, that may 'lock' it down enough to not bugger everything else up.


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I already have assigned it a static IP :D

It shows up as an available Wireless Access Point, on all wireless-enabled devices (both laptops, the new PC, the laptop of anyone who visits), with the name "PS3-" and seven numbers - so it's not that the signal it broadcasts interferes with the intended Access Point, but that it broadcasts its own Access Point signal and SSID! And of course it always matches channel with the router because it gets its wireless signal from the router in the first place. And it's not router-specific either - this has affected a Belkin and a Netgear router.

It's really, really odd. I'm wondering if there's a setting I've enabled/disabled which would cause this.
 

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