This nice family on FB marketplace selling a brand new portal for $140!! (clearing out because they’re moving abroad), I just couldn’t resist at all!! Just picked it up, i’m so excited 🙌
What games do you guys play on the portal?
Playing crimson desert at 60 fps at 30k feet.. 🤯
So my weekend job and ps portal combo lets me get in so much more gaming than ever.
I have long spells of waiting around for customers so a hotspot from my phone, the portal and a coffee makes the time fly by.
I wasn’t sure how much I’d actually use it when I first got it, but for trophy hunting it’s kind of perfect. A lot of the grind in GoW is cleanup—collectibles, ravens, side quests, Muspelheim/Niflheim runs—and being able to just pick it up and chip away from the sofa, or in this case at work makes a massive difference.
Instead of needing to sit down at the main setup and commit to a full session, I’ve been doing quick 20–30 minute bursts. Clear a couple of ravens, knock out a realm tear, maybe finish a favour, then hop off. It adds up fast without feeling like a grind.
Also weirdly helps with the more repetitive bits—like Niflheim runs—because it feels more “casual” on the Portal. I’d probably get bored doing that at my desk, but handheld it just clicks.
I love this device.
I only picked it up because working night shifts as a security guard gets pretty boring sometimes, so this is honestly a great way to pass the time. I went with black everything looks better in black lol It cost me $305 CAD, which is pretty pricey I really wish it came with headphones and a charger block at that price lol. Overall it’s good so far, but the real test is gonna be how it holds up when I’m at work.
I am out all the time now for working so I purchased mi portal to not lug the whole ps5 to hotels. I can hotspot it to my phone of course but that’s not always ideal. Does it have problems bringing up the captive login pages?
Ps5 is wired to 2 gigabit so it should always have full bandwidth and low pings
So I just got my first credit card with capital one today and decided after hearing the oled version isn't coming out and the price increase I decided to to buy one. Is there anything I should know, like a certain case I should buy for it? Also anything hidden i should know?
Major visual improvements particularly on older titles. AC Odyssey from 2018 😟
Hello everyone,
Like many of you, I’ve been playing crimson desert. I play on my portal at work when I have downtime on my 72 hour shifts (I’m a firefighter). I was curious to what the best settings are since the new updates for the best experience. I have a PS5 Pro hardwired to the router at home, where I usually play on my 77” LG C4. The settings in my photo are what I currently have them at, but can I do better? Thanks for the help!
Everything's contacted to the network. Playstation is on. Still won't connect. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
So up until now i have been playing only at home through my home WiFi and quality is pretty good as seen on the picture (latency 1-2 ms).
I read somewhere that this works via WLAN or sth… so i assume if i will be away from home thats not the case. I have an abroad trip planned soon so the connection will not be local.
How big of a quality hit (latency and resolution) am i suppose to expect, is it even worth taking the device with me?
Changed my hotspot name and password and still no luck connecting, many phone and portal restarts. Help lol I’m bored
Been wanting to play dark cloud again but don’t got a ps4 or ps5 so hoping eventually we get it on the portal with the classic collection. How often does that actually get games added to it? It has some bangers like legend of dragoon i was not expecting so here’s to hoping!
Anyone played on their phone hotspot ? And is it any good ?
My Portal generally plays really nicely with my hardwired PS5 Pro. It looks sharp at max resolution settings, has minimal latency and is smooth as silk.
However, like clockwork, it loses connection every 20 minutes. There’s no deterioration in quality prior to it happening - the picture just suddenly freezes. Interestingly, I can continue to control the game when this happens so can reactively hit the pause button, but shortly after I get booted to the portal circle and get a message saying I lost connection to the PS5 with a choice to reconnect.
I can always reconnect immediately and continue for another 20 minutes before it happens again.
The consistent regularity of this suggests a clear underlying cause, but I’ve not yet identified it:
I’ve tried all bitrate settings, I’ve reset and repaired the Portal, I’ve power cycled the PS5 Pro, I’ve disabled HDCP, I’ve disabled HDMI smartlink, I’ve tried full and limited data reporting, I’ve tried setting static IPs on both PS5 Pro and Portal, I’ve power cycled the Smart Hub, and nothing changes - every 20 minutes I get disconnected in the same way.
I’d love to know if any other BT Smart Hub 2 users in the UK are experiencing the same thing, as I’m keen to diagnose where the issue lies and if it’s exclusive to my network or if there’s a wider compatibility issue.
I’d also love to know if anyone else has experienced similar and managed to resolve it in recent updates.
I’ve had the Portal since launch but never used it much because I was never happy with image quality - from the year one stutters, to slightly muddy image quality from capped bitrate, I never really took to it. However, the recent update with increased bitrate has turned it into something I’m genuinely wanting to use more, but the 20 minute disconnects are impossible to look past.
Appreciative of any help!