Why is PSN so slow...?

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John2290 said:

Barkley said:

I get 26 megabit download on PSN, so just over 3 megabytes a second downloading games. Also can people please use megabit or megabyte because it gets confusing when people use "mb" and you have no idea if they actually know which they are referring to or even if they know they are different things.

Can't tell you how many times I've come across people online with 50mbit broadband and they're getting mad because they're only downloading at 5 megabytes a second from steam.

I'm getting about that (2.5ish megabytes a second) for roughly a minute and a half then it starts slowing down to about .75 megabyte a second, this might not seem likt a big drop but its the difference in 50-60 minutes to 3 hours to download Firewatch at 6.3gb file size

I must be very lucky, i usually download stuff from psn at 12 megabytes per second on my 100mbps connection. The psn server on my zone must be a good one and not far from my location. Have 2 PS4 and neither have problems loading the store or downloading stuff. 6.3gb takes less than 15 minutes on my connection. 

Wired connection to my gigabit port on the router, the others are all 100 mbps and on those i can't reach the speeds i mention above. Simple things can make a big difference.