Help me with PS4 wifi speeds...

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indyhoosier

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Ok so I'm trying to help a friend with his PS4. I dont know about them and I don't own them, and I'm baffled. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

He had some sort of $40 belkin router, like $40 from walmart about a year and a half ago. I think it is a n150 router. Now, my previous experience with the lower end belkin is they pretty much suck and are unreliable. Anything that was hooked up would only get 30mbits wirelessly, anything, no matter how it was setup, so I suggested him get a netgear router, even a used one would do. So he came up with a netgear n750 router. This seems to have fixed issues with all other N type devices which are getting 58-59mbits and I thought ok, this would fix the PS4 issue. but no-go. The speed test for the PS4 is still roughly showing around 24mbits down, and downloads are slow.

Since I dont know anything about a PS4, I'm wondering if theres some manual configuration that would get it up to par, or if this is just limitations of the hardware itself?

Every other device works great, aside from it, and i think it might be an earlier model of PS4 if that matters.

I'm going back over sometime this weekend to try some things, and it would be great if you guys could arm me with a few ideas here. Is this a common PS4 problem?
 
The PS4 downloads speeds just suck and the built in speed test is unreliable. It also downloads way faster in rest mode but even on my 170/170 finer connection hardwired to the PS4 it takes WAY longer compared to my Xbox one and htpc (which all share the same switch). What kills me is my ps4 starts an update with "preparing to download" which I'm not kidding can take half an hour only to download a small patch for a game like destiny.
 
PS$ WiFi is also notoriously bad, and made even more troublesome by the latest firmware update.

Some people are having success if they look at their WiFi channels and make sure they aren't on a crowded channel.

Others have good luck by forcing the router to only use the WiFi G (not B or N).

And a third group just bypasses the PS4 WiFi and use an ethernet bridge instead, so the PS4 hooks up to the bridge via ethernet, and the bridge connects to the WiFi network.

I haven't had any issues with mine, but my ISP is so slow that I don't know that I would even be able to notice.
 
From my experience is download speeds are terrible on PSN. My PS4 pretty much have never gone any higher then 24Mb even on a wired connection.
 
If you must use wifi with a PS4 your best bet is a router with some form of CFW that can be put in bridge mode. Get the cheapest TP-Link N router that'll support Tomato or whatever, plug that in to the PS4 and have it bridge to the existing router. Which ideally should not suck. Tell your friend to stop being a cheapass if he wants things to be fast.

Computers and electronics in general are like cars. Cheap, fast, reliable. Pick 2. More realistically, like... pick one and a half.
 
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My PS4 Pro gets around 20-30mb/s down over wifi using the PS4 Speedtest. On Ethernet connection? 200mb/s. Avoid wifi with PS4.
 
im thinking that ill try it on wired when i go back over there. he'll just have to re-arrange XD If wired is much improved and he still doesn't want to re-arrange it permanently then Ill maybe recommend a bridge off the 5ghz band. I thought about that, but since I've never owned a ps4, I wasn't sure if that'd be an advantage over the wireless currently on it.
 
has to be a shitty card in it or could be PSN itself. XBL never had these issues for me or my fiiends. I'm not pro XBOX or anything. Even the lowest & slowest wireless N adapters should be able to pull more than 18-25mbits with signal is 90% or better strength, and the network isn't set up for b/g either. Everything else running from the router is running at at least a 300mbit link
 
indyhoosier said:
has to be a shitty card in it or could be PSN itself. XBL never had these issues for me or my fiiends. I'm not pro XBOX or anything. Even the lowest & slowest wireless N adapters should be able to pull more than 18-25mbits with signal is 90% or better strength, and the network isn't set up for b/g either. Everything else running from the router is running at at least a 300mbit link
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Cant be PSN as like I stated earlier. 18-30mb/s on wifi for me and 200mb/s on Ethernet.
 
Wifi for PS4 is terrible. Use wired if possible. If not, try to connect to a different DNS. That is really about all you can do.
 
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