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I'm borrowing a 360 from a friend at the moment and I've always heard all this shit about the 360 being so much faster at downloading demos and such than the PS3.  I'm not seeing it.  Skate 2 has been downloading for 30 minutes at its at 12%.  My PS3 takes about 10 minutes per demo.  Whats the deal is it not setup right or what?  I'm on a wired connection and I ran the automatic settings.  UpNp is on for my router.



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Is the Skate 2 demo new? If so... it's probably in real high demand right now.



depends on connection, i hate the fact that you have to instal demos on ps3 after you have downloaded it.



Different demos are different sizes.



toastboy44562 said:
depends on connection, i hate the fact that you have to instal demos on ps3 after you have downloaded it.

True this!

They should add an option to remove that thingy. I have an Internet connection and I don't want to transfer the demo/trailer to a friend's PS3 that don't have access to the Internet...! >_>



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DongHungLong said:

I'm borrowing a 360 from a friend at the moment and I've always heard all this shit about the 360 being so much faster at downloading demos and such than the PS3.  I'm not seeing it.  Skate 2 has been downloading for 30 minutes at its at 12%.  My PS3 takes about 10 minutes per demo.  Whats the deal is it not setup right or what?  I'm on a wired connection and I ran the automatic settings.  UpNp is on for my router.

That's bull-shit.

Simply, how could every download take ten minutes?

So when you buy LBP DLC (1.0 MB) it takes ten minutes?  And when you download full games (Burnout Paradise, a few gigs) it takes ten minutes?

Please stop.



^If you wanna be an arse about it, he said "demos" dlc isn't a demo.



0.4% per minute, that's pretty fast. Well. It would be if you were downloading Metal Gear Solid 4.

Can you see the actual speeds of the downloads on either 360 or PS3? And can you see the actual size of the files? Just wondering.



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SamuelRSmith said:
^If you wanna be an arse about it, he said "demos" dlc isn't a demo.

He could have been a little nicer, but his point is valid.  Not all files are the same.  One demo could be 500mb and another could be 1.3gb.

 



JaggedSac said:
SamuelRSmith said:
^If you wanna be an arse about it, he said "demos" dlc isn't a demo.

He cuold have been a little nicer, but his point is valid.  Not all files are the same.  One demo could be 500mb and another could be 1.3 gb.

 

 

 Oh yeah, I agree with the point, I just thought the way he put it across was rude.