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The_vagabond7 on 31 July 2008

for the love of, this is driving me nuts. I still can't update. My internet works fine, I'm connected, ect ect, I've restarted my system and many other things but still every time I try It can't get above 15% before it gets an error.



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skip on 31 July 2008
The_vagabond7 said:
for the love of, this is driving me nuts. I still can't update. My internet works fine, I'm connected, ect ect, I've restarted my system and many other things but still every time I try It can't get above 15% before it gets an error.

 

if you have a flash drive download it with your pc from sonys site for your region.



The_vagabond7 on 31 July 2008

I do not have a flash drive, all I have is a PS3 that won't DL it's freakin update. IT'S GOOD FOR YOU? DON'T YOU WANT SOMETHING GOOD FOR YOU?!



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akuma587 on 31 July 2008

Skip's got the best idea.

It is true there have been a rash of updates lately, but this is the exception rather than the norm. It was only this bad during the beginning of the console's life cycle, and I expect it to slow down now that they have added in-game XMB.



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lysneb on 01 August 2008

@vagabond

I had the same trouble the first 2 times I tried to system update (I'd hit 15% and then connection to server would be gone).  Luckily the third time was the charm and I was able to finish downloading it today.

 



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epsilon72 on 01 August 2008
skip said:
The_vagabond7 said:
for the love of, this is driving me nuts. I still can't update. My internet works fine, I'm connected, ect ect, I've restarted my system and many other things but still every time I try It can't get above 15% before it gets an error.

 

if you have a flash drive download it with your pc from sonys site for your region.

^This.  I'm surprised no one mentioned it sooner than skip did.

 



quimicomortal on 01 August 2008

I downloaded yesterday and it worked fine for me.



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IllegalPaladin on 01 August 2008
d21lewis said:
Had to update when I first got it, on June 13, right out of the box.

Had to update the next week, when I went to the PS Store. I still don't know why.

Maybe it's my connection, but these updates take FOREVER. It's a little frustrating. I had assumed that every time new content was available at the PS Store, I had to sit through an update. One week, I didn't though. Hopefully, downloading while the console is off will become an option soon.

 

The PS store used to be done through the web browser and it was a rather 'meh' experience to look though it. It was slow, clunky, unappealing, and not very useful. You have to update before you could use the PS store because they finally took down the peice of crap browser store and replaced it with a much better software based PS store.

It could be your connection or that lots of people are downloading the updates. I usually get through them in a timely fashion.



Phrancheyez on 01 August 2008

This was actually the smoothest update I've ever had to do on my PS3. Not only did it download faster than any previous update, it installed much faster as well.

I dunno what to tell you.



Cowboys4u86 on 01 August 2008

It's odd because I've never had a problem with an update before, I guess I must be one of the lucky few. I noticed this one was pretty quick for an update as well, but that was probably because it was smaller than the previous two.



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