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Wireless PS3......Slow Download Speed????
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I was downloading a game pack for Red Dead Redemption on my PS3 yesterday. It took approximately 6 hours to complete.
The 'add-on' was 1740mb's.
I have an Orange Router (SpeedTouch connection).
I am unsure of what the download speed was as I didn't think about looking at it at the time.
The router is approximately 14' below my PS3 which is in my bedroom. I have a very good signal all the time.
I'm wanting to know why it took so long to download?
If you need any more info please let me know and I will do my best to answer them.
The 'add-on' was 1740mb's.
I have an Orange Router (SpeedTouch connection).
I am unsure of what the download speed was as I didn't think about looking at it at the time.
The router is approximately 14' below my PS3 which is in my bedroom. I have a very good signal all the time.
I'm wanting to know why it took so long to download?
If you need any more info please let me know and I will do my best to answer them.
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As to why it took so long... 1¾ GB is quite a big file - 3 cds worth
the main factors that govern the time taken for your download are:
If the patch is new and popular, 6 and 7 are the most likely culprits.
If you have problems with all downloads, 2 and 3
If it's sometimes good, and sometimes bad, 4 and 5
Connection Speed (Download) - 1.6 Mbps
Connection Speed (Upload) - 419.1 Kbps
My mate asked his mate about my problem and he said to check my connection.
My mate has setup as main telephone socket with a phone extension to PS3 and a filter plugged in to the end of the extension with his router and phone. (Hope you understand this lol)
1. Would it make any difference if I have it connected from the router to the PS3??
2. Would it be worth changing the PS3 internet connection settings? (Although I am worried that I won't get reconnected if I change the settings...But I do have the settings wrote down)
this means your down connection of 1.6megabits gives you a top end download speed off 200kB/s (kilobytes per second)
1740MB downloaded is about 1781760kB which will take about 8908.8seconds (at max speed) which is about 148.48 minutes which is a little over two hours,
Now bare in mind that the RDR addons are very popular, it seems your average download rate was about 1/3 of that, taking around six hours, thats an avg of around 66.66r kB's
At the end of the day it doesn't seem that bad to me, I mean at the end of the day you've got a slow line speed, 1.6MB is quite slow imo, about the same as HSDPA (mobile 3g 3.5)
I find using a factor of ten a better estimate when converting between bits per second line speed and bytes of data transferred, so I'd expect the maximum data transfer (after taking into account the protocol overheads) 160kB/s
His transfer wasn't approaching that, so the bottleneck appears to be elsewhere than the between his PS3 and his ISP.
Most likely server load.
Also take into consideration of other devices attached to the broadband.
IP headers, TCP headers, random internet noise
10Kb/s per 1Mb/s for TCP overheads when the session is at running at full efficiency doesn't sound too far fetched
8192Kb/s actually
VERY rare to achieve about 8000Kb/s though I would have thought.
I was very careful to state I was converting between bits per second line speed and bytes of data transferred. But then this sort of shizzle is my job.