Hardwired, WI-FI 7, Optimized, But The PlayStation Portal STILL SUCKS!

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Published on May 16, 2025 2:15:05 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns1Ff5INZNA

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Portal (2007)

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When it comes to Sony, they tend to either nail things or fail miserably. Take the PlayStation Mini or PlayStation Classic, man, that thing was a disaster out of the gate. It wasn't until hackers and the homebrew community got their hands on the PS Classic did the system finally became decent. The PlayStation Portal was a device I was very excited about, but it was one failure after another failure after another failure with it. Many people suggested that I needed to hardwire the system to my modem, upgrade my Router, optimize the port forwarding, and other things to get it to work. I couldn't possibly be doing things right, according to some. Things were so bad that I even sold my PS Portal. But eventually, I decided to give things one last try, so I bought an open box Portal from Best Buy, upgraded to a WiFi 7 TD-Link Router, optimized my port settings, and tried again.

First things first, setting up the mesh router, I made sure I had good speeds throughout my house. With gigabit fiber internet, I was seeing 900 Mbps and above up and down at the router itself. On Speedtest.net, I was able to get 600 Mbps consistently through my entire house. My streaming services like Netflix and Disney+ all worked perfectly. Once I was happy with my network coverage, I tested the speeds on my PlayStation 5 and I was not impressed. Initially, I was struggling to get 200 Mbps download and 100 Mbps upload speeds. What the hell? Ok, so tried moving things around and eventually got speeds near 300 Mbps download and almost 200 Mbps upload. With this in mind, I fired MLB The Show 23 to see if it worked.

And it didn't. The performance was identical to what I had experienced before. With this in mind, I connected my PS5 directly to the router as a last resort. When I tested the speeds on the PS5 itself I was floored at how much better the throughput was! It was truly incredible! With these speeds the Portal had to work, right? RIGHT?

WRONG!

The Portal was still a laggy piece of trash no matter what I changed. As a piece of consumer electronics, it just needs to work, and it doesn't. This is something that has far too high of a frustration factor. I plan on returning this Portal, and I'm not sure about the TP-Link router. My old Mesh System worked just fine for what I needed. This stinks, and I am frustrated and done with the Portal yet again. After going hardwired, Wi-Fi 7, Optimized, and dialed in, the PlayStation Portal Still Sucks.

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