ps3 - leaving it on downloading, this wise?

craptakular · 11 Feb 2008 at 10:23

Lo,

Stupid Q but....

left me new ps3 on downloading burnout demo, its gonna be on 10 hours while I'm at work.

Is this ok in the future? I mean I dont want it to pack in....

I know its a stupid Q, im sorry

msmalls74 · 11 Feb 2008 at 10:26

Oxy said:
Lo,

Stupid Q but....

left me new ps3 on downloading burnout demo, its gonna be on 10 hours while I'm at work.

Is this ok in the future? I mean I dont want it to pack in....

I know its a stupid Q, im sorry

No shouldnt be a problem, my PS3 was left on for 10 days folding when i was on my hols. If you have a PSP pair it with your PS3 and as long as you have a WiFi connection you can switch and switch off your PS3 as you like, if it concerns you.

Inoshishi · 11 Feb 2008 at 10:27

10hrs? what kind of net connection do you have dude?

And yeah it will be fine, I've left mine on folding for 48hrs solid before now, these things don't overheat, they just throw a lot of heat out.

da_mic_1530 · 11 Feb 2008 at 10:41

I'd be much more confident leaving the ps3 downloading rather than the 360, but what net connection do you have dude?

craptakular · 11 Feb 2008 at 11:08

da_mic_1530 said:
I'd be much more confident leaving the ps3 downloading rather than the 360, but what net connection do you have dude?

Just a 2mb line. So max i get is 250-270 kb/s, and im torrenting as well so it will be slow downloading burnout today.

800mb would take alnight to get. Thats y im letting it download while im at work

yaboy · 11 Feb 2008 at 11:12

msmalls74 said:
No shouldnt be a problem, my PS3 was left on for 10 days folding when i was on my hols.

Why would you waste your moneyz on some folding thing?

Waste of time if u ask me

NokkonWud · 11 Feb 2008 at 11:13

da_mic_1530 said:
I'd be much more confident leaving the ps3 downloading rather than the 360, but what net connection do you have dude?

You don't need to leave the Xbox360 on, you set something to download then turn it off, it uses a power save mode to still download whilst it's off, the power light on the front will blink every 5 seconds or so.

da_mic_1530 · 11 Feb 2008 at 11:20

NokkonWud said:
You don't need to leave the Xbox360 on, you set something to download then turn it off, it uses a power save mode to still download whilst it's off, the power light on the front will blink every 5 seconds or so.

got to admit I never really download any more, any when I do its when I'm playing a game so the xbox is never on when I'm not gaming, or watched a DVD

ic1male · 11 Feb 2008 at 11:22

My PS3 has been on practically the entire weekend thanks to Oblivion. At one point I did think there was a nasty burning smell coming from it but it went away as quickly as it appeared...

Wyrdo · 11 Feb 2008 at 11:24

ic1male said:
My PS3 has been on practically the entire weekend thanks to Oblivion. At one point I did think there was a nasty burning smell coming from it but it went away as quickly as it appeared...

Probably the heat out of the back melting your wall?

Wyrdo · 11 Feb 2008 at 11:25

yaboy said:
Why would you waste your moneyz on some folding thing?

Waste of time if u ask me

Yeah I feel the same now, if electricity wasn't so expensive I wouldn't care. But I'm becoming tight as I get older so no folding!

Shamikebab · 11 Feb 2008 at 13:14

It shouldn't be a problem. I leave my 360 downloading over night quite a lot so I can't see why the PS3 couldn't do it.

wannabedamned · 11 Feb 2008 at 13:17

My mate did final fantasy 7, without saving, to prove a point. Dunno how long it took him, but he slept, etc. Just left it paused. So it was on a fair while.With no trouble

Needles · 11 Feb 2008 at 13:41

yaboy said:
Why would you waste your moneyz on some folding thing?

Waste of time if u ask me

Well thank god nobody asked you then :rolleyes:

Bigpig · 11 Feb 2008 at 16:36

NokkonWud said:
You don't need to leave the Xbox360 on, you set something to download then turn it off, it uses a power save mode to still download whilst it's off, the power light on the front will blink every 5 seconds or so.

I never knew this doh lol

Hyper · 11 Feb 2008 at 16:37

Took me 20mins if I remember correctly, pause your torrents so it goes faster.

Nymins · 11 Feb 2008 at 16:48

yaboy said:
Why would you waste your moneyz on some folding thing?

Waste of time if u ask me

Do you even know what folding@home actually is?

Joebob · 11 Feb 2008 at 17:08

yaboy said:
Why would you waste your moneyz on some folding thing?

Waste of time if u ask me

It's actually contributing to something constructive and useful for the benefit of the whole of mankind... but if you see it as a waste of money then I suppose it's each to their own.!!!

Montegue · 11 Feb 2008 at 17:09

Is the PSN slow as hell today, just trying to download Turok and Conflict demo's but they are seriously slow as in 20 kb/s or around that. Never had this before and my net speed is normal. Just tried the inet browser on the ps3 and that loads fine. Just downloads from the ps3 are terribly slow.

NokkonWud · 11 Feb 2008 at 17:13

Montegue said:
Is the PSN slow as hell today, just trying to download Turok and Conflict demo's but they are seriously slow as in 20 kb/s or around that. Never had this before and my net speed is normal. Just tried the inet browser on the ps3 and that loads fine. Just downloads from the ps3 are terribly slow.

Some people complain of slow PSN speeds, it's been a frequent complaint from day one, never ever had it myself though, I find it faster than Xbox Live

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