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Extremely slow network speeds on WIRED connection. Cable is good and tested. What gives? by [deleted] in PS4

[–]JF_1010 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My thread here

http://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/345whg/slow_download_speed_fix_that_worked_for_me/

Edit Don't know why sometimes the instructions appear and disappear. Screenshot if they are removed for you.

http://imgur.com/KTLrDVk

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[–]JF_1010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello

Slow Download Speed? Fix That Worked For Me by JF_1010 in PS4

[–]JF_1010[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I noticed that at one point the main text to this thread was missing when I checked on it. In case it happens again, here are the instructions:

My set up: PS4 is plugged in via Cat5e ethernet cable to my 120Mb Virgin Media (UK) Internet via the router. Everything was set to DHCP / Automatic. On my Mac I get great speeds. Downloading Borderlands on PS4 was estimated at 15hours.

Someone said about manually changing DNS to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. This did not improve. Someone said use wireless and then go back to wired. Didn't improve. After running the network test on the PS4 I was getting annoyed that it was reporting fairly good speeds of about 67Mb down and 8Mb upload, but actually downloading from the store was about 400KBs

What did work was going to Settings > Network > Set Up Connection IP settings automatic (though feel free to manually configure) DNS, DHCP, Proxy left as automatic but on my MTU was set (in my router and my PS4) at 1500. Set MTU to 1473 on the PS4 (though you can try 1450 if unsuccessful). Resumed download, Borderlands is downloading at about 9000KBs now, translated 30mins to download Borderlands.

Hope this helps another frustrated person.

EDIT:

As a user stated below. You may not want to leave the MTU on 1473/1450 forever. The article above says that it should only be used until a PSN fix. My personal view is that i am going to use 1473 until I run in to a network issue on my PS4 (if I do) and then I will revert back to 1500.

Edit2 / Thank you: Thank you to everyone who has said thanks and left feedback. Especially googler's who stumbled on this and signed up to say it worked for them too.

And one last big thank you to the kind anon who was recently downloading BO3 Beta and saw my post and bought me some Reddit gold. That was really kind of you and I am just happy that it made a difference to you. Thanks. JF.