Morning all
Hoping you can help please.
Just recently my PS4 has been acting a little strange. During fornite I will get 'lag spikes' every 20-30 seconds, where the game freezes for maybe 0.5-1 second, I thought this was just a game issue so I tried pro clubs too and it happens on here too, sometimes even worse. The game will freeze for a couple seconds then speed up to catch up with play. Party chat has the same issue where it'll cut out for a second, which can be annoying when speaking with friends and missing some of what they say.
Now, I know its not my internet speed because I have 100mb download and around 10-20mb upload I believe. If I run a SpeedTest on my phone (5G), I get these results so all is fine, not being capped or anything by the provider. My PS4 is an old one (not a Pro one), so only has 2G capabilities. Has 100% signal strength etc and gets speeds of about 30-40mb download and 2-6mb upload, which should still be more than enough to play without issues.
I thought maybe it was a firewall issue or something similar so I created a static IP for my PS4 and put that into a DMZ to avoid any issues. It was still the same and even made more issues with signing me in but not loading friends list as timing out and not being able to sign into Fornite or EA Servers, so had to refer back to normal automatic IP config.
I have also done a "rebuild" on the PS4 through Safe Mode, which has sped things up on the menu screen and loading of games etc but nothing to help this issue. Its very strange and annoying indeed.
Does anyone have any advice or suggestions please? I have (and still am) doing my own research but theres so many different problems out there on forums and help websites that its hard to find lots of suggestions with this one.
Any help appreciated.
Cheers
Dan