PS3 download times.

Zarlak

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Is there anything you can do about these? Any options to tweak etc? Mine has just gone to shit, apparently it's going to take 1900 minutes to download the 1.8g BF:BC2 patch, and the DC Universe Online beta I had updating for 15 hours (15GB patch) and I turned my tv on this morning to see 150 hours estimated remaining... are there any options you can piss about with in the PS3 menus to maximise download performance?


I have a 20mb connection but only get around 0.5/1 down the line. It should only take 30 mins to an hour to download that BF patch and not 31 hours... currently achieving what looks like 17kbps when downloading via the ps3...
 
A 1GB file or so, takes me about 90/100 minutes. I don't know how, or even if, you can speed them up. Weaste will know.
 
marchi-91 said:
really? I download a gig every 7 minutes on a 8mb connection.
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So you would be getting 2.4mb connection speed down your line because of all the 'how far you are away from your exchange' etc. I only get 0.5mb to 1mb connection down my 20mb line. So I would expect my speeds to reflect that, but I only seem to be getting 17kbps when downloading via the PS3. It's strange and I can't figure out why. It's pissing me off because I don't get AC:B until Christmas off the missus, and I can't play Bad Company or DC Universe until I figure this out because I can't download the patches.
 
Must say Ps3 DL times is my main gripe about the system. Xbox seems way, way faster in Downloading updates and games etc...
 
I have the same issue with downloading, there's nothing more annoying than putting in that new game you've been really waiting for then having to wait 40 minutes while it downloads a patch. Then wait for 15 minutes after that as it installs onto your hardrive.
 
Xander45 said:
I have the same issue with downloading, there's nothing more annoying than putting in that new game you've been really waiting for then having to wait 40 minutes while it downloads a patch. Then wait for 15 minutes after that as it installs onto your hardrive.
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At the moment I would be ecstatic with a 40 minute wait for a patch considering I'm currently looking at 1,900! 1,900 minutes for BF:BC2 and 8,100 minutes for DC Universe Online.
 
Zarlak said:
At the moment I would be ecstatic with a 40 minute wait for a patch considering I'm currently looking at 1,900! 1,900 minutes for BF:BC2 and 8,100 minutes for DC Universe Online.
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Might be faster to just program it yourself.

I have noticed this as well, the PS3 takes a lot longer to download patches than my Xbox on the exact same line.
 
The file you are downloading may be available via the internet, try looking online, download it with your pc, slap it on a memory stick and use that to put it on the PS3? Bit of a roundabout method but probably a lot faster than 1900 minutes!
 
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