Irishmantis
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From the time i being on Neogaf and these threads came up, everyone who had constistent good speeds i asked was from USA or Canada thats why i think its regional
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Fix your pathetic, shitty PSN servers, Sony
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From the time i being on Neogaf and these threads came up, everyone who had constistent good speeds i asked was from USA or Canada thats why i think its regional
I just found out that replacing my automatic DNS servers for google's is the only way I can download ANYTHING from PSN. Really.
Mind it that it's only a problem with the PSN, but not Steam or Xbox Live. No idea why.
Now I have to manually alter my DNS servers to Google's eveytime I have to donwload something from the PSN. I switch back to my IP's ones afterwards cause it improves my connection stats, sadly.
Mind it that it's only a problem with the PSN, but not Steam or Xbox Live. No idea why.
Now I have to manually alter my DNS servers to Google's eveytime I have to donwload something from the PSN. I switch back to my IP's ones afterwards cause it improves my connection stats, sadly.
CambriaRising
Member
A lot of people have no idea about proper router settings and they are only trying to help, relax dude.
LegendofDragoonLives
Member
I always buy physical for AAA titles and indies all get downloaded while I play a different games. Sucks mate, but I can't relate. :\
Any business that generates billions of dollars a year in revenue is a serious business.
Trogdor1123
Member
That is certainly possible, it would make sense as well given populations and regions but I don't really know much about that stuff so I could be wrong .
Ninja Scooter
Member
Anecdotally, I used to have these same issues on PS3, download speeds were abysmal and you couldn't download in rest mode so I'd have to leave the thing on damn near all day to download a full game but it's been a complete 180 on ps4 for me. Download speeds are as fast as any of my other devices.
BRocknRolla
Member
Haha, yeah... Me too. Sorry to hear your experience isn't good OP, but it isn't universal either.
Yup, mine are pretty decent. Usually around 6-7mb/s (as in 48-56Mbit). I think Sony probably have some good regional servers up here.
Irishmantis
Member
where you from?
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Until yesterday (or at least very recently) they were much less shitty for me. Now they're absolute garbage.
I'm wired.
What? Downloading at 0.2 MB/s on a 12.5 MB/s connection isn't shit? Nothing normal about that at all. Garbage.
It's fine. NAT type 2, etc. The PS4 network connection test even says my DL speed is around 50 Mbps (which is still much lower than it should be, but faaaaaar better than what I'm actually getting from PSN).
I do the same. Bought Bloodborne physical. But guess what, 2.6 GB (or something) day 1 patch. Took ages.
JoseTheTaco
Banned
This seems like a gamefaqs worthy post but yeah it's download speeds are terrible
She upgraded from her 486dx/2, nice!
Summer Haze
Banned
I usually download everything in rest mode, that seems to be much quicker.
bananafactory
Banned
Posts insisting it's a user problem are also annoying.
There is definitely an issue with download speeds being inconsistent either from region to region, day to day, or even fluctuating during a download. It doesn't seem to affect everyone but it is a problem, I have seen it myself.
"5kbps?! Yes! I got someone with a T1 connection!"
BRocknRolla
Member
Wisconsin, USA
Not exactly top of the line internet around here, but I've never run into issues.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
When it's been working great (well, if 3 MB/s is great) up until now, and is now suddenly shit without me having changed anything? Yeah, I'll blame the ones responsible for the servers.
Here's a speed test I just did, BTW, in case anyone thinks my connection is at fault:
That's directly to my PC though, here's through my router:
Yeah, my router is old and sucks, but clearly it's not the issue here.
Rollo Tomasi
Member
The Bloodborne patch was taking forever to download. Then I paused and resumed and it went super fast.
Yeah can't possibly be anything else like how your connection is routed towards their servers, an issue they could not possible control since it would be up to your ISP.
I just posted today I was surprised at how fast the new system update downloaded. It was 250+MB and it flew.
4GB update for GTA 5 also downloaded pretty fast for me. I'm on wireless and have 25Mbps down, 6 or 10 up.
I did tweak some settings on my router tho, like always making sure my consoles always gave off the same IPs whenever they connected. That helps alot.
I used to do the DNS thing until I lost internet because Comcast was updating something. They do lots of updates on their X1 service for some reason... Comcast DNS sucks too...but the added headache of having to reset things just so they can do their updates was too much of a hassle....almost like always port forwarding whenever a new console was connected or something else that would change the IP of your console.
Static IP's for your consoles folks is they way to go.
4GB update for GTA 5 also downloaded pretty fast for me. I'm on wireless and have 25Mbps down, 6 or 10 up.
I did tweak some settings on my router tho, like always making sure my consoles always gave off the same IPs whenever they connected. That helps alot.
I used to do the DNS thing until I lost internet because Comcast was updating something. They do lots of updates on their X1 service for some reason... Comcast DNS sucks too...but the added headache of having to reset things just so they can do their updates was too much of a hassle....almost like always port forwarding whenever a new console was connected or something else that would change the IP of your console.
Static IP's for your consoles folks is they way to go.
apieceofstrange
Member
I remember speeds being pretty terrible during the PS3 days, but it seems fine for me now on PS4. Dled the Bloodborne update last night and it took about 20 minutes. Speeds are not nearly as fast as on Steam, but reasonable enough and comparable to XB1 for me.
ScriptedReality
Member
I've never had psn utilize my connection speed.
It could be neither end, since iirc Sony uses a content distribution network for PSN downloads. It's probably some third party that's having some issues, either the CDN or the OP's ISP.
AmuroChan
Member
I don't know dude. It's clear that not everyone has this issue. So maybe it's a regional thing or your ISP throttles bandwidth for certain types of downloads.
ReBurn
Gold Member
They sure as hell cost serious money. And sometimes I'm impatient.
Yes but it's not a panacea either. Everybody has a different situation regarding their location, their nearest CDN server, ISP routing, DNS server. It ALL matters. The best DNS server is the one that connects you to your nearest CDN server. That won't always be Google.
Gravy Boat
Member
Isn't this a bit of a strong reaction for a problem that has only existed for 1 day? You said yourself they were fine up until yesterday, maybe it's a temp problem?
Slow downloads suck, but the OP is very angry over what seems to be a very recent problem in an otherwise fine service (in his experience).
Slow downloads suck, but the OP is very angry over what seems to be a very recent problem in an otherwise fine service (in his experience).
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
The thing I don't get is how inconsistent it is. Sometimes I get great speeds and at other times(like right now) its just crawling along.
Xion_Stellar
People should stop referencing data that makes me feel uncomfortable because games get ported to platforms I don't like
I'm not saying the servers are perfect but personally I never had issues downloading anything off PSN but my only small complain is that I don't download at my connection's full speed. I have a 60 Mbps connection but I somehow always cap at around 40-50 Mbps download speed but otherwise it's fine to me.
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
I have always had decent speed, even back with the PS3 with people posting 3 days DL times for 13gb whereas mine is under ten minutes, on PS4 my updates pop up "ready to install" by time the PS4 has reached the home screen and no I don't use Rest Mode, now I don't get full speed on my PS4 but it does do 64mb mostly, I even had Nat 3 and still had a better connection then people who have bad connections.
But people with bad PSN have always had bad PSN speed and they always blame Sony's servers, but if was Sony's servers then everyone would have problems once in a while, but they don't.
so people will say that because the problem is obviously on the user side and it don't matter if other devices have great speed, theres something on your side thats giving you a shit connection.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
I might be overreacting, sure. But it should NEVER EVER be this bad. Not for a single day. It's just not acceptable.
RoadHazard
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Hellshingu
Member
Took me almost 30 mins to download the BB patch on launch day. Some downloads go decent speeds sometimes while others can take much longer than they should I've gotten used to it unfortunately.
I have 300/20 btw.
I have 300/20 btw.
Man, then I have some bad news for you about the internet and how ISP's work. There is no 100% guarantee about anything online for a reason.
who provides your internet?
Maintenance
Member
Nvm.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Bredbandsbolaget (fiber). Have they been known to throttle PSN speeds?
The PS3 couldnt do wireless N, and still cant after numerous hardware revisions....so that was a big problem if you were using wireless. You had to set the router to a, b, or g...cant remember which... for better speeds.
Something I still call Sony out on when the 360 could do N.
Some modems are hybrid modem/routers....something I despise. Its a lil easier to tell now but wasnt years ago.
If you had bad speeds wired.....I dont know what to say. I do believe Sony uses cheap networking hardware for its consoles...opinion of course.
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