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PSN on PS4- Will they finally fix it?

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FlyinJ

Douchebag. Yes, me.
My biggest concern about the PS4 and it's "all digital" initiative is in regards to the absolutely awful speeds of PSN.

They have had 7 years to fix it, but never did.

They don't even acknowledge it as a problem.

Some people have said it was just bad hardware in the PS3, but the Vita suffers the same absurdly slow speeds.

Some people have said it's a router issue. I've lived in 3 different places with 3 different providers and routers, and all of them give abysmal speeds on PSN whereas my PC and 360 absolutely blaze.

We're talking getting a solid 4.5 megabytes/sec on my PC and 360, while PSN will give me at most 700k/s but usually more along the lines of 200k/s.

Has there been any official acknowledgement of this? Have they said there is a brand new infrastructure in place for the launch of the PS4?

EDIT:To clarify everything I've tried:

I have used:

Comcast in San Francisco proper with a 6 megabyte per second plan.

Time Warner in Brooklyn with a 8 megabyte per second plan.

I've used both the wireless routers on the cable modems they've given me and two separate routers on both connections. I have also tried opening ports and putting the PS3 and Vita in the DMZ on all three routers.

I am not running any torrents at the time, or anything on any of my devices that use bandwidth.

I have tried both WiFi and directly connecting my PS3 to the router.

All other devices I've used in both cities (PC, 360, iPhone, Kindle, iPad) have maxed out my bandwidth to it's full potential. The only things that don't do this are the PS3 and the Vita.
 
Yeah, I have no speed issues either.

Also, since the PS4 is will utilizing the Gaikai app packaging tech for downloads, your wait time to get started should be next to nothing.
 
Still, seven years on I don't understand these slow speed problems. I personally have never had a slow download yet to this day, I am wireless with a router and have shitty Canadian internet.
 
This is the one thing I'm looking forward to seeing. The PSN Store has always been a pain in the ass to use. Even more so now.
 
I never have huge problems with PSN downloads. I get around 10Mbps on it, which is fine for what I need...granted I get about 50Mbps on my computers so its a bit of a dropoff.
 
They have a lot to fix on the software/OS side of the console. While they're at it they can take the current PS store and throw it in the closest garbage can and give us the old one back if they can't come up with anything better.

Curufinwe said:
My PS3 Slim downloads data as fast as my 360 Slim does.
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Neat. Many others have problems that they don't have on their PCs and 360s though.
 
I've had a fair few speed issues too. Sony's online was pretty poor for me during this gen, compared to Xbox at least. With PS+ I'd imagine within the next year or so they'll catch up some in terms of reliability and speed, I certainly hope so anyway.

But for now XBL > PSN in terms of speed and service. You can expect people have differing experiences dpending on where they are in the world.
 
my only problem with the psn is their damn store. It's so sluggish and its a pain in the ass to search for games. i hate it.
 
I work in a dev studio in the US, and every single one of my coworkers has had extremely slow PSN downloads since they first bought their PS3s to the present. They are also from all over the world, and have had bad experiences everywhere they lived from the UK to US to Asia.

I have never personally met someone who has told me they had decent to good speeds on PSN.

These people also have no problem with the speed of their 360 or PC using the same connection.
 
I don't know what it is but my 360 and PS3 download equally slow. The fastest one I had was my 360 Elite but that was years ago. I think the new HW will benefit everything including download speeds.
 
The only time I had slow download speeds was when I created a Korean account to download a Hot Shots Golf demo back in 2007. Otherwise usually everything is at least 1mb/s,
 
I have issues with both of my PS3's downloading any sort of content. My internet is fast I guess I'm just in a bad position relative to the servers. I'm going to be running ethernet down to my basement so that I can hardwire my PS4 and hopefully make the internet connection a bit better.
 
I used to get terrible speeds on my PS3 over Wi-Fi, but as soon as I plugged the PS3 in using an Ethernet cable (it's pretty close to the router) I got as much bandwidth as my connection can give my PC (6 Mbit or so).
 
When a 13mb patch takes me 2minutes, something that would take 3sec on my pc, yeah there's a problem and no Sony probably won't fix this, both are on wired connection, though i could put my pc on wifi and it would still download shit faster.

Also i shouldn't have to open ports or do anything in order to have stuff working with a console.
 
I have 2 PS3's in my house and my slim downloads just as fast as the 360 but the fat is way too slow and is useless at any downloading.
 
Curufinwe said:
My PS3 Slim downloads data as fast as my 360 Slim does.
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I've tried 2 ps3's, in 3-4 different apartments/homes over the years.


Never had a speed that wasn't ass slow.

Never even met anyone off the internet who hasn't had same issue.


My ps3 slim wired is slower than my phone's 3g connection depending on the day.

My vita is faster but still really really slow.
 
They "fixed" it before. Now it's worse than it ever was.

So until they understand the difference between fixing and breaking shit, they shouldn't attempt doing anything.
 
the way i see it. ps4 vs pc. my pc is more powerful, but vita remote play sounds neat (unproven if its any good though).

now that amazon charges tax here, ill probably go more digital on consoles... so for multiplat.


i go where it dls the fastest. Steam vs psn 2.0. hmmmm
 
I don't live in the boonies. My PSN dls are fast.

TloU was my most recent DL only game on PS3.

My Vita had been DL only since day one.
 
Live Free or Die said:
It's not the PSN you have to open the ports the PSN uses or put your PS3 in the DMZ. Make sure to connect via cable instead of wifi if you want the best connection. I had the same problem and so did my friend until we did this http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=501177
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I've tried doing this at every place I've lived (New York City, San Francisco and London), and it never made a difference.

And even if it did, it's absurd that Sony would expect you to do something like this- especially seeing how you don't have to for the 360.
 
No problems here, always get at least 2-3 MB/s from PSN. The install always takes longer than the download for me. The last thing I downloaded (Puppeteer) was even faster, maybe 4 MB/s. But some people clearly do have issues, so they need to make it more consistent no matter where you live.
 
Derrick01 said:
They have a lot to fix on the software/OS side of the console. While they're at it they can take the current PS store and throw it in the closest garbage can and give us the old one back if they can't come up with anything better.



Neat. Many others have problems that they don't have on their PCs and 360s though.
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Of course many have problems, then again many don't ........ the catch all statement in the OP will result in posts like this.

For example I have never had an issue with slow download speeds.
 
It's not always slow, but it seems to be mostly down to luck if you get good speeds or not. They should definitely improve on that. On Vita it often helps to pause and resume a download, but that didn't really work for me on PS3.

Avallon said:
Just let me sort my download history and delete demos from it.
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Oh, yeah, this. And filter, too. Still don't understand why I have to scroll through all my PS3 stuff on Vita, it makes no sense and is incredibly annoying.
 
Curufinwe said:
Well specifying which type of PS3 they have might show a pattern. Perhaps the wifi is worse in the original PS3 models.
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I have a 160gb slim and it downloads as slow as the old 60gb did on wi-fi. On Steam I average 4gb an hour and downloading a 10gb game on PS3 will take me around 4-5 hours usually. Not including the extra hour to install the damn thing.
 
PSN download speeds are all over the place.. sometimes it works fine and fast other days it just plain sucks.. mostly because their servers get bombed.. they need more servers and a better infrastructure.
 
The trick is not to download in the background. You can't use the PS3 for anything else in the mean time but atleast it downloads a LOT faster.
 
The PSN store pisses me off. It always constantly freezes. When I download something it downloads fine. Its the store itself that sucks.
 
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