Ps3 download speed

V1N said:
I don't mean to state the obvious, but indeed, if it's only Virgin customers, and then, only the PSN that's causing problems, then isn't it at least possible that Virgin throttle back the bandwidth for the PSN?

I remember years ago reading about BT Internet throttling certain ports and P2P services. Maybe Virgin have something in place to restrict bandwidth on PSN downloads?

I wouldn't imagine they would do this?
In any case, could also be worth writing to Virgin about, and asking?

From my own perspective (on Demon, not Virgin) it generally runs at least at a few (3-4) hundred k per second* (I only have a 7mbit connection anyway) though it can slow down, and start to time out, when we're all going mad trying to get the latest demo, all at once ;)


V1N.

* I've never actually measured this, just watched the numbers going up the screen when checking in the download manager.

EDIT: Or has anybody tried using the PS3 to download a large file from another site, via the PS3 browser? If you downloaded the service pack or something, using the PS3 browser (you can do downloads, but only to a USB device/memory card I think) Just to rule out whether all internet access to the PS3 is restricted, or whether it is just the PSN that's running slow?
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I will try and download a file onto a memory stick using the ps3 browser and i will post the results.
 
V1N said:
EDIT: Or has anybody tried using the PS3 to download a large file from another site, via the PS3 browser? If you downloaded the service pack or something, using the PS3 browser (you can do downloads, but only to a USB device/memory card I think) Just to rule out whether all internet access to the PS3 is restricted, or whether it is just the PSN that's running slow?
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I can't believe I didn't think of this!!! Bear in mind that I am certain that I am certain that the PSN just works over http so if your PSN downloads are slow, then web based stuff should be as well.

I have never downloaded a file from the PS3 browser. I'm gonna try it now (does it just appear under download management like PSN downloads?).


rp200

Edit: Bizarre I can download this file fully on my Pc at around 1.3mb/s But on the PS3, it starts the download, but the progress ba does not move, and my usb key is not "flashing" in a way that indicates data is being written to it.
http://users.wskisoft.co.uk/rp2000 <--- This is the link I am trying (high speed download from apple site, 180mb).
Edit2: Used a different memory stick and it is downloading same speed as my PC.
 
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Out of interest, are people connecting via wireless, or good old fashioned RJ-45?

I only ask, as my wireless speeds aren't the best anyway. I get a 99% signal, so no problems there, just, when I'm streaming stuff from my PC to the PS3 over wireless, I have a network monitor running in my sidebar. It always seem to hover around the 1mb a second upload. That's only 10mbit. I assume the PS3 has, at least, a 54mbps adaptor in it. My access point is 54mbps, and as I said, the signal strength is max, using WPA encryption.

I'd expect closer to 10mb per second transfers to be honest.

In theory, if I were unable to exceed 10mbit over wireless, and I had the same internet connection as some of you guys, then my wireless connection would actually be limiting my internet speed... albeit still to about 1mb per second... I was just wondering if anybody connected via RJ45, with a very fast (ie, above 10mbps) internet connection is suffering this same slow down problem?

Just a thought,

V1N.
 
V1N said:
Out of interest, are people connecting via wireless, or good old fashioned RJ-45?

I only ask, as my wireless speeds aren't the best anyway. I get a 99% signal, so no problems there, just, when I'm streaming stuff from my PC to the PS3 over wireless, I have a network monitor running in my sidebar. It always seem to hover around the 1mb a second upload. That's only 10mbit. I assume the PS3 has, at least, a 54mbps adaptor in it. My access point is 54mbps, and as I said, the signal strength is max, using WPA encryption.

I'd expect closer to 10mb per second transfers to be honest.

In theory, if I were unable to exceed 10mbit over wireless, and I had the same internet connection as some of you guys, then my wireless connection would actually be limiting my internet speed... albeit still to about 1mb per second... I was just wondering if anybody connected via RJ45, with a very fast (ie, above 10mbps) internet connection is suffering this same slow down problem?

Just a thought,

V1N.
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I am connected via 100 M/bit and have a 15mbit ADSL connection and have no problems.

54MBPS /8 = 6.75 mb/sec so that is the max you could get. If you ever transfer faster than 5 mb/sec (ie 40 MBPS) sustained data rate between 2 54g devices using WPA on consumer access points, call the ambulance 5 minutes before you post that info, as they will be needed at my house when I read that info and faint.

Seriously though, theoretical bandwidth goes out of the window when dealing with wireless 2.4ghz and any encryption protocol. As long as you have a less than 20MBPS broadband, then you are OK. I would say with a 24mb connection at times your wireless will be the bottleneck as the data rate of your 54g WLAN will sometimes drop below 24mbps. What speed internet you got out of interest?

I can give more detailed explanations as to why, but I will only provide them once someone can demonstrate a over 5mb/sec sustained transfer over 54g as above. ;)


rp200
 
So basically we've come to the conclusion that it is in fact the PSN that is the cause of our slowness? I dont understand how some people seem to have absolutely no problems, yet at whatever time of day i try i get such poor speeds.

I think that i may write to sony and see what they have to say on the matter. Good thing its free
 
I tried something else today and made an american account.
I also checked the nat setting which is at 2 this is supposed to be the best setting.
I can not understand the results the download speed from america is faster than from the uk.
I have just downloaded the ratchet and clank demo and it took 1 hour and thats a 1609 meg file.
If that had been on the uk site it would have taken 4 or 5 hours.
It must be sony uks fault for the slow download speeds.
I see the conan demo is on there as well.
I will just be using the american site for downloading now until i see any info about sony uk fixing the problem.
 
ian flowers said:
I tried something else today and made an american account.
I also checked the nat setting which is at 2 this is supposed to be the best setting.
I can not understand the results the download speed from america is faster than from the uk.
I have just downloaded the ratchet and clank demo and it took 1 hour and thats a 1609 meg file.
If that had been on the uk site it would have taken 4 or 5 hours.
It must be sony uks fault for the slow download speeds.
I see the conan demo is on there as well.
I will just be using the american site for downloading now until i see any info about sony uk fixing the problem.
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Are you sure its not your ISP doing some kind of throttling of the UK PSN Store?
 
I'm using wireless to connect to the PSN. I'm only on 8mb adsl, but it seems to download at pretty much full speed - at any time of the day :)
 
Inoshishi said:
Are you sure its not your ISP doing some kind of throttling of the UK PSN Store?
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Yes i am sure i have downloaded from the uk store at 10am in the morning and mid afternoon same slow speeds.
Anyway i am 20meg download and even if it got throttled it only goes down to 4meg which is still pretty fast.
On 4meg it still should not take 4 hours to download an 850meg demo.
I think blueyonder only throttle after 4pm.
 
Yeah I get crap speeds on my PS3 also. There is a PS3 proxy server which I configured the PS3 to use - the handy thing about this is that it gives you the url that the PS3 is downloading a file from. So, out of interest I clicked on the same link on my PC and got 1.6MB/sec ... compared to about 100KB/sec on the PS3 itself, very strange indeed.
 
Phemo said:
Yeah I get crap speeds on my PS3 also. There is a PS3 proxy server which I configured the PS3 to use - the handy thing about this is that it gives you the url that the PS3 is downloading a file from. So, out of interest I clicked on the same link on my PC and got 1.6MB/sec ... compared to about 100KB/sec on the PS3 itself, very strange indeed.
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Can you then transfer the file back onto the ps3 and install?
 
thecremeegg said:
Can you then transfer the file back onto the ps3 and install?
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Yes with a little bit of trickery. Using the proxy server you can replace requests to a URL with a file on your PC. So when I downloaded the Ratchet & Clank demo on my PC, I just told it to redirect the URL that the PS3 tried to download from with the file on my PC - the PS3 then downloaded the demo straight off my PC instead of from the net :)
 
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