Izanagisks
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Hey all. First post, but I have an issue I can’t seem to figure out. I’ve always had a slow connection speed to PSN but it wasn’t so slow that I couldn’t play online. But it’s always been noticeably slower. We’re talking 20mbps download speed on games, but when I download on Xbox, there’s at least 100+mbps download speeds. I’ve tried port forwarding, QoS on my router, etc. all the tricks to try to make the PS5 faster.
The reason why it’s bothering me now, is because I got a portal for Christmas courtesy of the wife. It works but has noticeable slowdown and connection drops, as well as resolution drops if I play for over a minute. My downstream and upstream are both less than 1mbps, even when standing next to my router on a 5Ghz channel. Which is insanity to me. Especially given the fact that I can stream Steam directly to my phone without any noticeable drops in resolution or connection standing far away from the router. Note my pc is streaming over wifi and my ps5 is directly hardwired to the router. At this point, I’m thinking it’s my PS5, but could my ISP be throttling Sony servers? It makes zero sense why all my other electronics work perfectly fine, yet my PlayStation struggles to keep up. It’s been that way since I’ve had the PlayStation. My next step is to get a new router and modem to see if it’s some weird hardware issue (since both are refurbished and getting old), or get one of my friend to bring their console over and test the internet here.
I just wanted to see if anyone had struggles with this and if there are any solutions.
The reason why it’s bothering me now, is because I got a portal for Christmas courtesy of the wife. It works but has noticeable slowdown and connection drops, as well as resolution drops if I play for over a minute. My downstream and upstream are both less than 1mbps, even when standing next to my router on a 5Ghz channel. Which is insanity to me. Especially given the fact that I can stream Steam directly to my phone without any noticeable drops in resolution or connection standing far away from the router. Note my pc is streaming over wifi and my ps5 is directly hardwired to the router. At this point, I’m thinking it’s my PS5, but could my ISP be throttling Sony servers? It makes zero sense why all my other electronics work perfectly fine, yet my PlayStation struggles to keep up. It’s been that way since I’ve had the PlayStation. My next step is to get a new router and modem to see if it’s some weird hardware issue (since both are refurbished and getting old), or get one of my friend to bring their console over and test the internet here.
I just wanted to see if anyone had struggles with this and if there are any solutions.