PS Network Slooooow?

robinph

I'd normal hang out on the other side of the console forums so not upto date on issues you'd maybe get round these parts, but nothing obvious came up from a search.

Anyway, is connecting to and downloading stuff from the Playstation Network always painfully slow? Or is there something in the PS3 settings that need changing that I've not spotted yet.

Have eircom dsl and a wireless Netgear. A couple of Xboxes happily connected and playing online and downloading stuff with no problem for ages. Last week I finally got round to connecting someone else in the houses PS3 to the network, mostly so that I could then use it to stream some avi's from a networked harddrive. That all worked fine once I got it going so nothing to suggest there is a problem with the wireless speed of the connection from the PS3 to the router etc.

But downloading the updates to the PS3 took an absolute age, and then just checking that I'd not messed up anything else I started up one of their games and it went off and downloaded a bunch of update for the game as well. These took an age to download as well, and they said how big each of the files it was grabbing was supposedly, but it shouldn't be taking 20mins* to download a 15mb* file.

Now it is apparently taking an age to connect to some online component of the game as well so I've just turned the wireless connection off for now. The internet in general is liable to confuse this person so it's no major loss for them.

Is it slow for everyone, or is there something that can be changed to solve it in anyway? There was nobody else online or downloading anything on the nextwork at the time.



*Numbers may not be accurate, but I got bored of waiting and left it as the progress bar was moving so slowly.

Otacon

The updates for the PS3 are notoriously big compared to the 360 so that may explain some of the discrepancies in time. Other than that, I haven't noticed any big difference in getting downloads myself, but I am based in London so the infrastructure is better.

Captain Chaos

Yeah, PSN is very slow for me too. XBL is as fast as my PC and laptop connections. I did a comparasion one night with the same demo. One after the other. The 360 took 20mins and the PS3 took over an hour for the same file size of 1.2Gb.

The last major NXE update for the 360 that was 200Mb took very little time compared the PS3 updates that take an age and add next to nothing most of the time.

I'm almost certain that Sony cap the traffic speeds over PSN.

David55

Hey Just to answer on the download and update speeds on the ps3 yes they are. I have both consoles my self and the updates for the ps3 are really the only thing that mainly piss me off with the console it takes for ever and its annoying that you cannot do anything whiles its doing the update i.e can't run it in the background and start doing other stuff.

GothPunk

You can download the PS3 system updates from the ie.playstation.com website, transfer to a USB stick and update the PS3 that way. I think that peoples experiences with the PS3 seem to vary, sometimes I wonder if it's down to how an individual has their network set up rather than variation in the PSN itself.

I'm on UPC's 10mb package and that's pretty much the download speed I get from my PS3, be that PSN store content or patches. I do have ports forwarded however and the PS3 is about 10 metres from the wireless router. You could look into forwarding ports I guess, at least make sure that the PS3 has NAT type 2 anyways.

Polar101

If I download something from PSN store (such as a demo), it is as fast as my network connection allows.

If I am installing a patch for a game, it is extremely slow.

CombatCow

Im on UPC 15mb and I get nearly full speed of my line on PSN downloads, im using a wireless connection and have NAT 2 if that helps....