• weedwhacking@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you have lag with the phone, you’ll have lag with the portal as well. It won’t work like the Wii U gamepad and will not do an ad-hoc connection. You need to look at your network setup.

    I have a relatively lag-free experience using remote play on my iPhone. Your internet speed has nothing to do with it - even if connecting outside you local network you realistically only need 10mbps of bandwidth, even that. Ping is the number you need to be looking at - and is ideally below 10ms. Make sure your PS5 is connected to your router via Ethernet. If you’re having problems connecting locally, upgrade to a WiFi 6 router and make sure you’re one wall or less behind the access point, set up a mesh (with a hardware backend, I use MOCA for mine) if you’re two walls or more away.

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      1 year ago

      Thanks for the advice - we do have a mesh network already, but I can’t hardwire the console due to the distance from the router (same room, but opposite sides). Ping is usually single digits, but I’ve still found even with a small number, latency can be a bit hit-or-miss. I’ve tried configuring settings to make things smoother, and I seem to have found some kind of sweet spot where drop-outs are less frequent, but there’s still times where it just refuses to work properly. Or even at all sometimes. I’ve seen in some preview videos that the Portal uses a “better” version of Remote Play due to how it’s been made, which swayed me in my decision to get it. With what you’ve said though, I may hold off until reviews come out before taking the plunge. Thanks again for your tips.

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        1 year ago

        Do you have a wifi 6 router? It improved my local streaming dramatically when I upgraded. No more issues even streaming high bitrate vr.