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[Investor9872]

Took me 4mins to download the RE Resistance demo (10.6GB). Seems perfectly acceptable.

Me too. That's why I don't understand all of these "I'm impressed they can make it slower" comments. I bet all of those comments are from people who don't even own a PS system, because they don't know what they are talking about. I've lived all over the country in the past 10 years, and I've never had any issues downloading from PSN. Just downloaded the 44 GB Assassin's Creed Origin in 17 minutes.

 

[nemiroff]

It's mostly for the countries with poor infrastructure.

I seriously doubt there are many countries in f.ex. EU with this kind of issue.. And that's exactly the frustration; there's no reason whatsoever to throttle anything here in Norway, but yet we get throttled directly from the content providers anyway due to the elderly know-nothings "the internet is a series of tubes" in Brussels. It's utterly stupid.

 

[Slings and Arrows]

Their download speeds were already pretty atrocious, I can't even imagine how they are now.

Another thread, another chance to give a quick jab at Sony?

Come on man, get a life already.

 

[SleepDoctor]

Slow down sucks but thats why my console is on rest mode. Hardly have to deal with doing any updates or downloading games.

 

[TheMan]

a bummer but games are a low priority at this time.

 

[Danjin44]

a bummer but games are a low priority at this time.

Is it? People have stay at home, so games are perfect entertainment for this type of situation, there are people cant leave their house and most stores are closed off (at least in Canada) and digital download is their only option.

 

[DynamiteCop!]

Another thread, another chance to give a quick jab at Sony?

Come on man, get a life already.

Why does reality offend you?

 

[RPSleon]

Gotta download FF7R over phone hotspot as it is, so this is just excellent news.

 

[Geki-D]

Is it? People have stay at home, so games are perfect entertainment for this type of situation, there are people cant leave their house and most stores are closed off (at least in Canada) and digital download is their only option.

You make it sound like it's impossible to download. If your speed is seriously affected, chances are your internet was dogshit to begin with. I got 10GB downloaded in 4mins. Investor9872 got 44GB in 17.

 

[kraspkibble]

lol. PSN never makes full use of my internet speeds at the best of times so i'm dreading having to download Persona 5 Royal in a few days.

i think the highest i've seen my internet go on my PS4 is ~140Mb/s which is a joke and not near what i actually get on my PC.

 

[nemiroff]

games are a low priority at this time.

I don't get it. What does this mean?

 

[Slings and Arrows]

Why does reality offend you?

 

[M1chl]

Amazon really sucks.

 

[Danjin44]

lol. PSN never makes full use of my internet speeds at the best of times so i'm dreading having to download Persona 5 Royal in a few days.

I'm currently facing the same issue, I was going to pick up my CE for Persona 5 Royal but my local EBgames closed down, so I have no choice but go digital.

 

[The Pleasure]

Still living in the 2000's I see ;p

If Nintendo can live in the 90s with their online service, then Sony can live in the 2000s.

 

[Valonquar]

So I guess FFVIIR will take a tad longer to download and then a day 1 patch will hose us all?

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

But isn't that going to be problem for people who no longer can buy games from stores and need to rely on digital copy?

No, the main issue here are the mandatory patches for mandatory online only games.



lol


Imagine playing those!

 

[Danjin44]

No, the main issue here are the mandatory patches for mandatory online only games.



lol


Imagine playing those!

I cant because I don't play online games (THANK GOD!!!)

 

[captainraincoat]

Yeah psn working as intended.....and this is off peak

Would take me about half an hour for a similar size file on pc or Xbox

 

[zcaa0g]

But isn't that going to be problem for people who no longer can buy games from stores and need to rely on digital copy?

There's a difference between "slowing down" and "stopping". I feel sorry for people who still use physical media.

 

[Mochilador]

They actually foreshadowed the COVID 19.

 

[Grinchy]

It downloaded my 91GB warzone patch in 2 hours. That's not horrifically slow.

 

[kareemna]

That's quite terrible (10:45 AM, half of Europe on home office and distance learning).

This test is never reliable.

Add an SSD.

This actually helps in installing/copying files as seek times are virtually 0.

 

[thief183]

the only thing I'm happy is for the ppl joking about the europe netflix quality downgrade.

 

[captainraincoat]

They actually foreshadowed the COVID 19.

Maybe we will see a patent for a network adapter with an ssd drive

 

[ruvikx]

Me too. That's why I don't understand all of these "I'm impressed they can make it slower" comments. I bet all of those comments are from people who don't even own a PS system, because they don't know what they are talking about. I've lived all over the country in the past 10 years, and I've never had any issues downloading from PSN. Just downloaded the 44 GB Assassin's Creed Origin in 17 minutes.

Come to the south west of France & see how much you enjoy waiting a full day for a 44 gb game. The download speeds you speak of are science-fiction in this part of the world.

 

[JSoup]

Never understood all the download complaining.
Do you people just sit in front of your downloads like it's a wavefunction that will collapse if you don't stare at it?
Normal people set something to download and fuck off to their lives.

 

[mcjmetroid]

So what was their excuse for the past 7 years?

 

[Riven326]

This test is never reliable.



This actually helps in installing/copying files as seek times are virtually 0.

I have a Samsung 860 Evo 1tb in my PS4 Pro. Doesn't take full advantage of it, but it still beats the 5400rpm hard drive it shipped with.

 

[Enjay]

PSNow has gome from usable in my house to impossible (gives me my 20 second warning and then disconnects not 10 minutes into any game) so I'm guesssing that understandably had to be throttled as well. Not gonna bother trying to try out predator this weekend.

 

[chemspida]

Can't wait for the defence force on this one!

 

[prag16]

Lmao. They're speeds are already trash. Steam and Origin max out my broadband, while PSN struggles to hit 25%, even when wired. (Don't get me started on their absolutely embarrassing wireless adapter.)

 

[Pallas]

Is there a point where they reduce speeds so much that you accidentally end up uploading instead?

 

[Danjin44]

Is there a point where they reduce speeds so much that you accidentally end up uploading instead?

 

[Keihart]

This sounds stupid, unless PSN servers aren't able to manage the load, connection should be allowed to get stressed to it's fullest. that's what you pay for. Internet it's not going to go down because of it.
Instead of capping acces speeds in general, ISPs should be giving essential services higher QoS and just let all the regular clients cap those connections as intended in peak hours, networks are already build to support network traffic at it's highest point because this happens every day at least once a day.

This just sounds as measures to save money, from ISP on international traffic and from PSN on their data centers, in this case.

 

[Investor9872]

Come to the south west of France & see how much you enjoy waiting a full day for a 44 gb game. The download speeds you speak of are science-fiction in this part of the world.

I feel your pain, my French gaming brother. Hopefully, the slow internet service in your area will be a thing of the past, sooner rather than later. Cheers!

 

[Silent Duck]

 

[LOLCats]

Is there a point where they reduce speeds so much that you accidentally end up uploading instead?

youre always uploading when youre downloading.

 

[Geki-D]

Yeah psn working as intended.....and this is off peak

Would take me about half an hour for a similar size file on pc or Xbox

I don't know what to tell you...

As I already said, if your internet is already dogshit then expect slow speeds.

 

[Grinchy]

I don't know what to tell you...

As I already said, if your internet is already dogshit then expect slow speeds.

Yeah, people are not very scientific about this stuff.

There are times where a download tells me it's going to take forever. I reset my modem, and suddenly it says 10 minutes. A lot of this has to do with shitty ISPs giving us shitty hardware like Spectrum, Cox, ect.

 

[Skyfox]

This is stupid SJW thinking. Real response is to HELP people stay at home, not slow internet services down.

Glad I didn't renew my psplus a few days ago.

At least my xbox hasn't dropped the ball.

 

[Armorian]

I don't know what to tell you...

As I already said, if your internet is already dogshit then expect slow speeds.

1Gb/s internet. Wi-Fi 2.4GHz speed:

Ethernet:

Predator Demo:

So in Poland PSN still works ok I guess. Windows Store on the other hand hard limits speed to ~5MB/s (40Mb/s), I think Steam has some limit as well.

 

[kareemna]

I have a Samsung 860 Evo 1tb in my PS4 Pro. Doesn't take full advantage of it, but it still beats the 5400rpm hard drive it shipped with.

For this reasons i go the QVO, cheaper and it doesnt take full advantage but due to the nature of HDD it will get worn out easily especially that we have electrical outages here.

 

[TheAdmiester]

I don't know what to tell you...

As I already said, if your internet is already dogshit then expect slow speeds.

Not really true. I have 350Mbit download and PSN rarely comes anywhere near that. It's more that it's a gamble of which CDN you get the files from, sometimes it's okay, most of the time it's terrible.

 

[Riven326]

For this reasons i go the QVO, cheaper and it doesnt take full advantage but due to the nature of HDD it will get worn out easily especially that we have electrical outages here.

In going to use it in my PC once the PS5 arrives.