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PS4 wifi sucks? PS2?
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Post 1 made on Friday January 4, 2019 at 17:36
Grasshopper
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I recently tried to help out a client with his ps4. He was playing Call of Duty online. He says that sometimes he has no problems at all, but half the time the wifi connection on his ps4 goes bad and he can't stay connected. It's an older ps4 and the ap is a Ruckus r300. We set up a special ssid for some of the devices in the unit. I ran network test with the ps4 on the regular ssid and it came back with a speed of ~25 Mbps. On the special ssid we set up it came back with a speed of 2.1 Mbps. All of the other devices in the unit have no problem with streaming or connectivity.

Also, I brought it up in Zone Director and the PS4 was showing an operating system of PS2. Anyone know what's up with that? Were a lot of extra PS2 parts re-purposed to make the PS3 and PS4?

Is the wifi connectivity with older PS4s just crappy?

Thanks!
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Post 2 made on Friday January 4, 2019 at 17:46
Daniel Tonks
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Sorry, no specific help with your issue. But is going wired completely out of the question? His latency and overall connection reliability will thank him.

Okay, some specific things to try (based on others with this issue).

* Turn it 90 degrees from the way it is
* Unplug Playstation Camera if installed
* Unplug any wireless headset dongles

Apparently the wifi on these is very susceptible to interference, and generally sucks.

Last edited by Daniel Tonks on January 4, 2019 18:41.
OP | Post 3 made on Friday January 4, 2019 at 18:06
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On January 4, 2019 at 17:46, Daniel Tonks said...
Sorry, no specific help with your issue. But is going wired completely out of the question? His latency and overall connection reliability will thank him.

Hey man...nah, not completely out of the question, but it would cost him...them, rather, the family. He was a college kid in town with his family and he was totally cool with it. I suppose the "HOA" is the real client. We installed a wifi network in the entire building. Of course it would be possible (theoretically, don't know if conduits in the unit to get to his room are obstructed or not) to install a switch where our cable comes in and get it to his location, but, that's not something we would typically do just so some kid could play C.O.D. If they were willing to pay for that, we might, but it's not a big enough deal to them really. Plus, we'd have to manage that switch as well, which isn't something we'd want to do...just so someone could play C.O.D. in a particular bedroom.

That being said, though, Mr. Tonks, do you think that putting a wifi to ethernet adapter (it's been so long I can't even remember what to call it anymore, I usually focus on other things) and plugging it into the ethernet port on the PS4 would help? He says that he doesn't have any problems with it in Nashville, it's just down here at his family's condo. It makes me think that it could be something with a network setting on our network, though not likely since every other device works fine. I can't remember the floor plan of the unit, how many concrete walls the signal has to go through between the room and the access point location, etc...should have thought to check on that. But, theoretically, if the wifi adapter in the PS4 was just crappy or going bad, you think an adapter that grabs the wifi signal (my wifi on my phone was strong in the room) and provides an ethernet connection could help? It's something I floated, but I said I didn't know if it would really help or not. Anyway, he was cool with it. I was just wondering.

If anyone has any knowledge about why the PS4 would have shown up in Zone Director as having a PS2 OS, that'd be cool...or why the "special" network we set up would have had such a much lower speed than the regular network in the unit.

Thanks!
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Post 4 made on Friday January 4, 2019 at 18:20
3PedalMINI
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This shit pisses me off the most. Especially when we do a WiFi system we end up owning every Device in the house, including the $3 IOT devices and grandmas 11 year old iPhone.



Anyway. It’s a known issue, especially on earlier PS4s. The problem comes from the Bluetooth antenna and the WiFi antenna being nearly next to each other. (Such a Microsoft thing todo)

Tell him to get a new PS4 or get it hardwired. Your reading too much into the PS2 chips (they weren’t even wireless, had to use a dongle on the later versions)
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Post 5 made on Friday January 4, 2019 at 21:49
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On January 4, 2019 at 18:20, 3PedalMINI said...

Anyway. It’s a known issue, especially on earlier PS4s. The problem comes from the Bluetooth antenna and the WiFi antenna being nearly next to each other. (Such a Microsoft thing todo)

It IS a typical Microsoft thing to do!
Sadly, the PS4 is made by Sony... so blaming Microsoft is tricky, still possible, but tricky.

An ethernet over power connection would be the best option for the kid.
This industry is not getting cheaper and cheaper, we're simply convincing ourselves that we have to push the cheapest option to customers.
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