ps3 question

[2mcgrath]

my ps3 is extremely slow downloading games from the store i mean ridiculous slow,i downloaded burnout paradise from the store last night it was about a 4 gig file and it took 6 and half hours to download,i had to set it up to turn off when finished and i just went to bed and left it,then installing the update it took another hour what the heck is the deal here.i have 10 meg download and 1 meg upload service

[prophet665]

If the numbers you provided are correct, then your connection speed was 2.91 Mb/sec.

What kind of conection are you paying for? Who is your ISP?

These are the things that can affect a download:

1. High traffic to the download site. If 2347893298 people are all trying to grab stuff from the Sony servers, then everyone gets a slow connection.
2. The download could actually be a P2P application that the PS3 uses and most ISPs are using some form of bandwidth shaping, which is a fancy term for slowing down certain types of traffic. You can thank the RIAA for that little nugget of crap.
3. A lot of ISPs also slow down your connection if they notice you are using a lot of bandwidth at one time. This is done in the best interest of the community, so that one person doesn't suck up all the bandwidth. i think it is crap, improve your infrastructure to handle what people are paying.

I want to move to Japan where they are implementing a 100 Gb/sec connections. This is essentially a Blueray movie in less than a minute. It would have taken you about 2.4 seconds to download that game at that speed.

[2mcgrath]

i just called charter and cussed them ive been having some problems last two months off and on they are crediting me two months and sending someone out again to look at the internet speed,cause i have a feeling its something to do with the net