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Why does downloading a game take so long? PS3
ChateauMarmont
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I'm a novice when it comes to gaming, I prefer my iPad and IPhone for games. However I won a PS3 at work and got rather nostalgic and tried to download GTA 3 to it. However it's a 4gig download, doing this on my home wifi on my phone would take a matter of minutes but on the PS3 it's saying over three hours!
Any reasons as to why?
Any reasons as to why?
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if the router is N rated ps3 buy n ps3 only uses a G to test this if you have a good 15mb or something
Turn on ps3 download BBC I PLAYER over wifi then play a program (if you connection can handle a HD stream play anything for a few seconds (if it stops and starts turn ps3 off connect a ethernet cable the rewatch the same program from the start i guarantee it will be a lot faster.
in a word wifi on ps3 suffers from a lot of interference they all do but ps3 wifi is far worse
use ethernet method in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_6T2oY3zhE (always use auto settings)
look for "ethernet cable" if you dont have one make sure is long enough to go ps3 from your routher
It took me an hour to down load a 4gb game on the PS3 by wired BB.
It took me 12 hours to download GTA Vice City. So, to me it sounds like you're actually one of the lucky ones.
There's a considerable difference in file size between the different versions.
The PS3 version is more than 9 times the size of the iOS versions, so it will naturally take a lot longer to download .
3 hours means your ps3 is connecting at roughly 3.5 Megabits speeds. If your on Virgin or infinity or any fibre optic service then this clearly a problem with the slow PSN network. However if you are not, an are on ADSL broadband; these speeds are perfectly reasonable.
Just to note it would take 6 minutes of very stable 100Meg virgin connection to download a 4 Gigabyte file so there is no connection available where you would get it in a couple minutes. There is also nothing on APP store that is 4 Gigs that I can think of so how are making the comparison ?
Anyway I am on ADSL and thought it would have downloaded a lot quicker than it has done, the install looks like it's going to take about 45 minutes. I did say at the start I have no idea of PS3's or why it was so slow.
That is with wi-fi.