Why are PSN users paying $50 a year for throttled internet speeds in mp?

[Dragonfly Jones]

Whatever your speed is, it gets cut in half when you're using PSN.


There's dudes on Neogaf that are paying for 100mpbs connections that get cut down to 50mbps on PSN


On PS3 it was tolerable because the service was free (I honestly wouldn't be complaining about PS4's throttled speeds if it was free also, u get what u pay for) but now there's really no excuse for it


My Xbox 360, released in 2005 has better internet speeds via Ethernet than my PS4, that's just ridiculous


I guess the real question should be why aren't more people complaining about this? The way they choke hold these speeds this sh1t should be free.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

PSN is as fukk. Took me almost 3 hours to download the bloodborne day 1 patch.

But word to @Liquid @Fatboi1 and the rest of the sony Stan coalition, who cares about the cloud and investments into network infrastructure, that's all just marketing talk.

 

[daze23]

The way they choke hold these speeds this sh1t should be free.

you don't need PS+ to download games and patches

 

[Dragonfly Jones]

you don't need PS+ to download games and patches

you need it to play multiplayer

 

[Don Mack]

Didn't take me anytime to download the patch and I never have connection issues on PS4 or Xbox 360. Might be your service provider

 

[Dragonfly Jones]

Didn't take me anytime to download the patch and I never have connection issues on PS4 or Xbox 360. Might be your service provider

what speeds do u pay for and what speeds do u average on ur psn speed test?

 

[KushSkywalker]

PSN is as fukk. Took me almost 3 hours to download the bloodborne day 1 patch.

But word to @Liquid @Fatboi1 and the rest of the sony Stan coalition, who cares about the cloud and investments into network infrastructure, that's all just marketing talk.

3 hours ?

Took me less than 10 minutes and my connections not even that great

 

[KushSkywalker]

I think a lot of people have their PS4 on wifi and don't understand placement and interference, plus I don't think Sony has the best wifi card in their system.

Plug that ethernet in

 

[daze23]

you need it to play multiplayer

but these complaints are about download speeds. you can experience those crappy speeds for 'free'

multiplayer performance depends more on ping than download speed

 

[MeachTheMonster]

I think a lot of people have their PS4 on wifi and don't understand placement and interference, plus I don't think Sony has the best wifi card in their system.

Plug that ethernet in

I'm straight wired connection

 

[Dragonfly Jones]

I think a lot of people have their PS4 on wifi and don't understand placement and interference, plus I don't think Sony has the best wifi card in their system.

Plug that ethernet in

I'm on ethernet bruh


PS4 doesn't even connect to wifi


Tried a few times in the past

but these complaints are about download speeds. you can experience those crappy speeds for 'free'

multiplayer performance depends more on ping than download speed

Not when it comes to things like shareplay and playstation now

 

[KushSkywalker]

I'm straight wired connection

Damn son don't know what to tell you

PSN can be and used to get me heated downloading shyt on PS3. Haven't really had that issue on PS4 though. What speed you got on your plan? Maybe there was more traffic on the server than when I downloaded it but it was like 2 or 3 gigs and it happened in no time for me.

 

[-DMP-]

I think a lot of people have their PS4 on wifi and don't understand placement and interference, plus I don't think Sony has the best wifi card in their system.

Plug that ethernet in

nah bruh, this is real. and its only been happening (to me) as of the last couple of months.

I thought COX was throttling my speed, cuz I noticed shyt on psn was taking longer than usual to download. I did the speed check on there, it was giving me 48 mbps.

I did the check on my computer and it was 127 mbps...

Both Ethernet connections. I didn't have these problems in 2014 with psn.

I get max 5MB/s (~40mb/s)and it fluctuates heavy at that.

-DMP-

 

[KushSkywalker]

Go to speedtest.net, then run the same test on PS4 that's a more accurate reflection.

If you're paying for 100MBPS that doesn't mean your ISP isn't throttling you too. You gotta check the speed through a separate source.

So I just did a test on speedtest.net and got 50.7 Mbps DL speed.

Did the same on PS4 got 30Mbps, so there is a difference

Never noticed it affect anything I've done on my PS4 though, but there you have it.

 

[daze23]

Not when it comes to things like shareplay

the complaints in the neogaf thread you refer to were about download speed

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1018024