Best guess is to save battery.
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Fixing 97% of Vita's Wi-Fi problems - Solution inside
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Best guess is to save battery.
TheDarkKnight774
Member
Same here. This changes everything. The hell
its crazy to think that everyone's impression of the vita's online capabilities hinged on this defaulted horrible setting that nobody realized was wrong.
Sony should patch out the entire setting to ensure maximum fix.
It's a setting that makes no sense. Want to save power, just turn wifi OFF. Why would anyone EVER want to use wifi in a gimped state to save battery instead of simply turning wifi off when not needed?
ChronotriggerJM
Member
For whatever reason, I thought the wording was perfect. Didn't know this was a problem for so many, but now I could totally see why people would think that.
CouchMaster
Member
LMAO I basically learned to live with the fucked up wifi for 2 years, are you telling me it could have been avoided by unchecking that one option? FUCK!!
PetriP-TNT
Member
Stupid americans, that's what you get for raping ye english language!
creid
Member
Oh jesus christ, seriously? I did have some pretty shitty experiences with Remote Play in the past, curious to see if they're fixed now. It'd be interesting to go back and look at people's "Vita remote play is awful and works like shit" vs "no it doesn't it works perfectly you're doing it wrong" arguments, in retrospect.
Infernal Monkey
Member
Yeah, I've messed around with this before and it sadly didn't help. My Vita's Wi-Fi is still absolute trash. It's lucky to get one bar when everything else I've got sitting around is at full strength. 
Man Called Aerodynamics
Member
Doctors hate this one weird trick!
Palette Swap
Member
Holy shit, mind blown.
Going to try that.
Going to try that.
guybrushfreeman
Unconfirmed Member
Yep. I've had it on since day 1. Thanks for the heads up.
Milestoned
Member
Are you kidding me Sony? And I thought the whole time that the wifi chip is just downright terrible and not even Nintendo could find such outdated hardware.
The phrasing is bi-stable. It could be regarded as "Keep wi-fi on during stand-by" (power save is reminiscent of this or like Sony intended.
IdreamofHIME
Member
Holy fuck my WiFi signal jumped from one bar to full.
...why would they have this as the default setting?
why?????????
...why would they have this as the default setting?
why?????????
SlasherJPC
Banned
Always had issues. My goodness. Mind blown.
Gtagentleman
Member
The same reason why the ps4 has suspend/resume game disabled by default.
bigbaldwolf86
Banned
Just unticked it. I generally get a decent experience using remote play but I'll test it later and see if it's any better. That option is really stupid if it's causing wifi issues all this time.
doctordoak
Member
I'm still getting only one or two bars, and the "connection to the server has been lost" on the PS store
Icyflamez96
Member
Come on Sony. That's just terrible.
Pankratous
Member
Oh shitey I gotta get home and try this
This is me. T_T
I might try just plugging my PS4 directly into my router. Would involve bringing the system into another room, but just once I'd like to see this actually work well.
cluxdeluxe
Banned
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EASTC0AST_GH05T
Member
Browsing gaf from the vita now, anyone have a link where I can run a speed test from the vita?
jimmyjimmyo
Member
Amazing, had my machine since prelaunch and the Wifi is finally faster than my mobile phones 3g
But...it's not disabled by default. When I actually found the setting, assuming it was defaulted off, it was defaulted to on.
breakfuss
Member
For a lot of people it actually is defaulted off, but yeah, was on for me as well.
Dual Blade
Member
Game changer. I really thought it was my crappy modem+router and was disappointed when my speed only increased a little bit when I upgraded the router.
I assume this will drain the battery much faster?
I assume this will drain the battery much faster?
Icyflamez96
Member
I don't recall ever seeing that option, and I don't recall my Vita ever having problems with WiFi, so I'm guessing it's unchecked for me anyway. I guess certain games like LBPV I always claimed to have terrible, virtually unplayable online multiplayer. Maybe some of the blame could go to a lot of people having that option checked? Then again, PSASBR normally worked very well for me.
petethepanda
Member
Before that, just do a quick test.
Go into the PS4>Settings>Network and turn off the internet connection completely. Then start RemotePlay in Direct Mode. Having PS4 WiFi module serving both internet connection and RP is really not reccomended. Even if PS4 is not transferring anything, Vita don't gets good priority.
Vita should have network test tool in its Settings, that includes down/up speeds to PSN servers.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
I did a speedtest, with on/off but it doesn't effected it, although the download of mGS1 was really fast (750mb).
Vashetti definitely deserves one as I said in the other thread where this started. Some pun on "Vita means Life" involving WiFi or something, I dunno.
Yeah, it's Vashetti that prompted the thread, but also this is mentioned in the official remote play thread by DieH@rd.. I had to find it out myself at the time though, so I thought it was a good idea to make this front news.
