This article gives details of how I got my PS3 Slim (Playstation 3 Slim) wireless network access working on the Apple Time Capsule.

I repeatedly got through the setup (after finding both my main and guest networks with a strong signal) entered everything as automatic and entered my key. It reported it was WPA/WPA2. After entering my key, came the dreaded connection test. It was trying to get an IP address, and it would be communicating with the wireless router but connection key exchange keeps timing out.

I read that I may be entering my key incorrectly, but after numerous times of trying this really carefully, it was definitely not an incorrect password. I also tried deliberately entering the wrong password, but I got the same error message that connection key exchange has failed / timed out.

I read somewhere that the PS3 doesn't recognise WPA2, somewhere else said it does, and somewhere else says it does but intermittantly, depending on the device... Interesting the Nintendo DS only support WEP apparantly (so I might give a go at getting the connection working on that next...).

So I went into the Airport utility on my Mac and tried playing around with the settings, unfortunately it won't let me add another guest network (something I think is possible...) and it won't let me change to a WPA or WEP key, its only allowing (WPA/WPA2) boo! So I thought lets give it a try without a key. So I turned off the key on the guest network, and tried getting my PS3 to connect.

And guess what happened, it worked! So this proves that its not my Virgin Broadband, or my Apple Time Capsule that is the problem, it seems that PS3 cannot understand the security related to WPA/WPA2. Since getting a connection, I can now browse the internet on my PS3, yeh! And I can now download the system update. I'm going to download that and then re-enable WPA/WPA2, and see if it now works. You never know the system update may contain a fix for this?

15 minutes later...

Amazing, after the update, I reverted my network settings on my Apple Airport / time capsule (wireless router) back to WPA/WPA2 with the same password, and reconfigured the network on my PS3; it only worked first time amazing!

I therefore have to conclude there was a problem with wireless security, and on updating the PS3 system, a fix was installed, which then allowed it to work.