PSP Go & PS3 Remote Play

It's not often that I get to do something fairly unique these days, but I seem quite alone in wanting to remote control my PS3 using my new PSP go and its built in Bluetooth functionality.

I'll share the lessons learned.

1. You will need an 'old' phone. Unless you're fortunate to have a smartphone that can create PROPER wifi networks complete with SSID and some kind of real security such as WPA, you're out of luck. The PSP go needs an Infrastructure access point for its 'normal' network connections, or Bluetooth DUN (as opposed to Bluetooth PAN, which was what all these new things only have).
2. You'll need an older phone that is probably a Sony Ericsson, or at least not a Nokia Series 60. My PSP go cannot maintain a connection with the Nokia, I think this is Sony's fault. Unsurprisingly it works really well with the S-E, even down to the ability to query the list of available APNs.
   
3. You'll need an account with Mobile Internet. WAP is no good. We need real Internets here.
4. I haven't had any luck using O2. There seems to be some kind of firewall or NAT issue which prevents the thing from connecting.
5. I have had success with T-Mobile, it's what I'm using now. I can't comment on 3, Orange or Vodafone.
   
6. Anything except 3G is way too painful. And turn off the animated background on the PS3, as that is just going to make it unusable.
7. Ensure your PS3 is set to allow remote play, and also that Internet remote play is enabled. UPnP will clear up all the port stuff if your router supports it, otherwise forward port 9293 to your PS3.
8. That should be all you need. Everything else is pretty straightforward and covered in the manuals

I think there is some room for improvement. The bluetooth modem stuff could certainly be fixed, or at least some guidance as to special strings or whatever. It's not really Sony's style to support stuff that doesn't take off though, so I doubt it ever will.