The problem is the mass of texture and sound data that barely compresses, and utilizing heavy compression techniques on console would result in any time saved downloading a smaller file, lost waiting for the console to decompress.

Usually, yes. I already have a whole mess of cables cluttering up the floors.

Yeah, that explains it. The PS3 has only WLAN g, which is 54 Mbit/s. Actually 3-4 MB/s are pretty damn good for that standard. The PS4 is way faster, even if it doesn't support 5 GHz networks for whatever reason.

Sony's network is at fault still. I have a 300Mb connection. And use LAN. It's still restrictive. Hell, the what's new page fails to load a lot of times on me. No improvement in syncing speed either. I had a 20Mb connection before. Not much has improved.