Make sure you have the latest version of the PlayStation operating system. Both single-player and multiplayer games can slow down the connection.Īnything involving a connection to the internet or sending large amounts of data will prioritize the download, and your gaming experience might suffer too. When the PlayStation is downloading a new game or file, avoid playing anything on the console. Even placing the PlayStation 4 inside a cabinet can block the connection, and its download speeds will suffer. Place the PlayStation 4 and the router in the same room with a direct line of sight for better results.

If your PlayStation and router are in different rooms with multiple walls between them, you’ll see low speeds, sometimes less than a megabit per second. Move Your PlayStation Closer to The Routerĭistance and interference greatly diminish the PlayStation’s Wi-Fi speed. A hardwired connection is more stable and circumvents the faulty Wi-Fi card in many of the earliest models of the PlayStation 4. This may not work for everyone (and should definitely be turned off except when downloading, no reason to add additional latency when online gaming) but I'm very happy that I stumbled upon that post.An Ethernet cable is typically several times faster than Wi-Fi. And it's a definite improvement over 16 hours. I noticed that estimate bump up (it was initially 60 minutes) over the first 10 or so minutes that I ran the proxy, but it seems stable there. The estimated time for the entire payload was somewhere around 16 hours, and is now at 90 minutes.

I was looking at 3 hours to download the first 5 or so gigs of Yakuza required to start play, and after routing through the proxy the download took under 2 minutes. This avoids a bug where the PS4 for some reason attempts to request too little data per request and is strictly at the mercy of your PS4 -> PSN latency.Īnecdotally, it totally worked for me. The process is relatively simple and involves running a proxy server on another computer, and routing the PS4's traffic through it instead of directly to your internet provider. Towards the end of the post, he describes a solution that works for him and links to the tools to try them out yourself. And hit paydirt: Ī Reddit user with some network analysis skill attempted to find the cause of the slow downloads, and thinks he's found it. Apologies if this is widely known or reported elsewhere on the forum, but out of frustration trying to download Yakuza 0 tonight I went google searching for solutions to the slow PS4 download problem.

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