This is worse actually. Buying games on disc like any self respecting collector won't save you from this problem, because your console will stop working.

Anyway, Sony are complete idiots WRT to online. Back when the PS4 was new, setting it manually to use Google's DNS instead of whatever was built in improved download speeds by a large factor.

Also, when they launched in Europe they had PSN available for like 3 countries, so everyone else told them they're in the UK and called it a day. Now they have separate account systems for most regions, but the *holes don't allow you to change your existing account's region to your home country.