I had to move my PS5 downstairs to my desk with a monitor to make space for my son's toys in the living room when he became a toddler last year. The modem/router is wired into the living room and I've been living with wifi this whole time, but I'm back on that wired connection and it feels good.
I have Bell Fibe 1.5 GBps max download. I ran a 75ft Cat8 cable from upstairs to downstairs around baseboards, a door frame, and a small set of stairs and it's wonderful. Cat 8 is overkill for this use case but future proof, and it only cost me 35 bucks and an hour of time pinning down the cable with clips.
Posted by Jonners_90
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5GHz is less impactful than which protocol it’s using – was it Wifi 5? 6? Just curious
Wired is always better, personally never had issues with WiFi
Any impact on ping?
It could also be interference – if your router has some kind of optimisation feature it can maybe detect the best band to avoid interference.
But yeah, wired seems to beat everything, but beyond a point raw speed doesn’t matter as much as things like latency, jitter etc.
For some reason WiFi on the PS5 is absolute trash.
In case you get tired of using a 75 ft cable, you can get mesh wifi (like the Eero which is what I had) which usually has 3 routers, one plugs into the modem and the other 2 you can put wherever. So, put one router in the PS5 room, then connect the PS5 to it via Ethernet. You will still have perfect connection, but without the unsightly cord.
Can you upvote this for karma please
Bro has over double my internet….. Anybody got a pic of Count Dooku with the caption “Twice the speed, double the fall”?
Look I don’t know how its relevant it just what popped in my head