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My PSN speeds are at...

1 Mbp/s or less 19 17.12%
 
1-10 Mb/s 21 18.92%
 
10-20 Mbp/s 18 16.22%
 
30 Mbps....or above. 29 26.13%
 
Full speed my ISP provides...comment. 24 21.62%
 
Total:111
pokoko on 04 May 2016
Uabit said:
Because they improve their servers with the money you pay every month to play online... Oh wait they don't!

They are laughing at everyone's face and people isn't doing a thing about it.

How do you know that?  What are you using to draw that conclusion?  Anecdotal evidence from this thread?  You know of a comparison study where all variables are removed?  Where a VPN is used to ensure no ISP throttling?  Where the networking configuration isn't the problem as it is with many cases?  Where people aren't downloading from the publisher's network?   Where people are using real time instead of the inaccurate software estimates?



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Normchacho on 04 May 2016

It's never fast for me, but as long as I'm not doing something else that uses the internet on the PS4 it's pretty much always between 20 and 25 mb/s.



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Marcusius on 04 May 2016

One of the hamster who turned the wheel died maybe



Conina on 04 May 2016

I have full speed (50 Mbit/s) with PS4, XBO, Steam, GOG, iTunes and most other PC services.

Around 20 - 30 Mbit/s with Wii U (which is still okay because the games are smaller), much less with Vita, 3DS and PS3.



LivingMetal on 04 May 2016

It's crashed on me several time. My PS3 is on my WiFi, but I think it's more of the Network that's causing it to crash and returning to the PS3 "desktop."



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luisliu on 04 May 2016

I used to have similar issues, especially characterized by downloads starting at close to expected speeds and gradually slowing down to a creep. I got rid of the issue after adjusting a few network security settings in my home gateway. It might have been a coincidence, but it's worth a try.



sergiodaly on 04 May 2016
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. 

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Uabit on 04 May 2016
John2290 said:
pokoko said:

How do you know that?  What are you using to draw that conclusion?  Anecdotal evidence from this thread?  You know of a comparison study where all variables are removed?  Where a VPN is used to ensure no ISP throttling?  Where the networking configuration isn't the problem as it is with many cases?  Where people aren't downloading from the publisher's network?   Where people are using real time instead of the inaccurate software estimates?

I dont know about Uabit (I'm sure they do and can clearly see they improved the network over PS3, man that was a mess sometimes, constent crashing and often went to 360 for online games) but I know for a fact that everything is okay, my ISP is not trottling it, ethernet cable doesn't make any difference, so its not wifi, I'm going to check again after mindnight, I can see that it was just after school closed that it dipped from just 10-15MB/s to 3-5Mb/s and then again two hours later when more teens (and possibly adults of work) would be home and it dipped to between 1-3Mb/s and slowly has started rising again since then. There are a lot of posts online about this dippage, its Sonys servers. I'll post back with the speed after midnight if anyone is interested.

I know a lot of people with psn issues :/



outlawauron on 04 May 2016

Not sure why people have so much trouble with PSN speeds. I found the PS3 download speeds to be inconsistent, some new content download super quickly (maximum speeds I'd expect over wireless), but a really old patch for an obscure game can take forever.

For PS4, everything goes very quickly. Like, I download games at 7-8 MB/s, so no complaining there.



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Wright on 04 May 2016
outlawauron said:

For PS4, everything goes very quickly. Like, I download games at 7-8 MB/s, so no complaining there.

 

I remember having our shareplay Bloodborne game having the biggest lag I've experienced in my life.