If you have that version of the console, you may run into problems more frequently as the system ages. Use an Ethernet cable.
This is the easiest fix for dealing with a slow Wi-Fi connection. All it requires is connecting the PS4 to the router with an Ethernet cable.
You don't need to worry about any interference, and you get the best connection, upload, and download speeds for your PS4. You'll have a better connection to the internet since the device is plugged directly into the router. A simple reboot can often fix a connectivity issue. Unplug the PS4 console for a few minutes and reboot it as well. Move the router closer to the console. The distance can make a PS4's Wi-Fi connection unstable, especially if there's interference from internal walls or other obstacles.
The closer your PS4 is to your router, the easier it is to keep a stable Wi-Fi connection. If you have brick internal walls in your home, moving closer to the router is especially important since it can be hard for a signal to get through.
The next graph shows the amount of data sent by the server in one round trip in red, and the receive windows advertised by the client in blue.
First, since the blue dots are staying constantly at about kB, the operating system doesn't appear to be doing any kind of receive window scaling based on the RTT. So much for that theory. Though at the very right end of the graph the receive window shoots out to kB, so it isn't totally fixed either.
Second, is the receive window the bottleneck here? If so, the blue dots would be close to the red dots. This is the case until about And then mysteriously the bottleneck moves to the server.
So we didn't find quite what we were looking for, but there are a couple of very interesting things that are correlated with events on the PS4. The download was in the foreground for the whole duration of the test. But that doesn't mean it was the only thing running on the machine. The Netflix app was still running in the background, completely idle [ 1 ].
When the background app was closed at , the receive window increased dramatically. The time where the receive window stops being the bottleneck is very close to the PS4 entering rest mode. That looks like another thing worth investigating. Unfortunately, that's not true, and rest mode is a red herring here. Below is a graph of the receive windows for a second download, annotated with the timing of various noteworthy events.
The differences in receive windows at different times are striking. And more important, the changes in the receive windows correspond very well to specific things I did on the PS4. I did a few more test runs, and all of them seemed to support the above findings. The only additional information from that testing is that the rest mode behavior was dependent on the PS4 settings. Originally I had it set up to suspend apps when in rest mode.
If that setting was disabled, the apps would be closed when entering in rest mode, and the downloads would proceed at full speed. A 7kB receive window will be absolutely crippling for any user. A kB window might be ok for users who have CDN servers very close by, or who don't have a particularly fast internet.
If any applications are running, the PS4 appears to change the settings for PSN store downloads, artificially restricting their speed.
Closing the other applications will remove the limit. There are a few important details:. So if you're seeing slow downloads, just closing all the running applications might be worth a shot. But it's obviously not guaranteed to help. There are other causes for slow downloads as well, this will just remove one potential bottleneck. To close the running applications, you'll need to long-press the PS button on the controller, and then select "Close applications" from the menu.
The PS4 doesn't make it very obvious exactly what programs are running. For games, the interaction model is that opening a new game closes the previously running one. This is not how other apps work; they remain in the background indefinitely until you explicitly close them.
And it's gets worse than that. If your PS4 is configured to suspend any running apps when put to rest mode, you can seemingly power on the machine into a clean state, and still have a hidden background app that's causing the OS to limit your PSN download speeds.
This might explain some of the superstitions about this on the Internet. There are people who swear that putting the machine to rest mode helps with speeds, others who say it does nothing. Or how after every firmware update people will report increased download speeds.
Odds are that nothing actually changed in the firmware; it's just that those people had done their first full reboot in a while, and finally had a system without a background app running. Those were the facts as I see them. Unfortunately this raises some new questions, which can't be answered experimentally. With no facts, there's no option except to speculate wildly! Yes, it must be intentional.
It's not any kind of subtle operating system level behavior; it's most likely the PS4 UI explicitly manipulating the socket receive buffers. But why? I think the idea here must be to not allow the network traffic of background downloads to take resources away from the foreground use of the PS4.
For example if I'm playing an online shooter, it makes sense to harshly limit the background download speeds to make sure the game is getting ping times that are both low and predictable. So there's at least some point in that 7kB receive window limit in some circumstances. It's harder to see what the point of the kB receive window limit for running any app is.
The only thing I can think of is that they're afraid that multiple simultaneous downloads, e. But even that seems like a stretch. There's an alternate theory that this is due to some non-network resource constraints e. CPU, memory, disk.
I don't think that works. If the CPU or disk were the constraint, just having the appropriate priorities in place would automatically take care of this.
If the download process gets starved of CPU or disk bandwidth due to a low priority, the receive buffer would fill up and the receive window would scale down dynamically, exactly when needed. Especially in a console UI, it's a totally reasonable expectation that the foreground application gets priority.
If I've got the download progress bar in the foreground, the system had damn well give that download priority. Not some application that was started a month ago, and hasn't been used since. Applying these limits in rest mode with suspended apps is beyond insane. Second, these limits get applied per-connection. So if you've got a single download going, it'll get limited to kB of receive window.
If you've got five downloads, they'll all get kB, for a total of kB. Run for a long time without restarting Most electronic devices and equipment, including the router, are not made to run continuously.
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WiFi is not as fast and stable as the wired When it comes to mobility and flexibility, WiFi connectivity outweighs wired one. Mbps download See also: WiFi download speed slower than upload Weak WiFi signals due to distance, interference, obstacles Once again, WiFi signals are transferred through the air, and they can get weakened or even entirely blocked by different causes. Physical obstructions Things like concrete walls, floors, brick, large metal appliances, thick doors or windows, etc are super effective at weakening and blocking wireless signals.
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I might have an idea why. Downloading Mass Effect: Andromeda's 1. It's worth noting that, for as long as your PSN internet connection is set up like this, it can only connect to the internet via your proxy. So, since I've never had a problem with actual ping or lag when playing online only having the speed problems when downloading , I simply turn off the proxy after a large download has completed and reconfigure my PS4's internet connection back to my router.
I don't download large files too often on the PSN, but if you do, it's up to you to decide if you want to switch between your proxy or not. If you're wondering why this works, Redditor tibiazak explains it well. Basically, the PS4 doesn't grab a lot of data at once, but running it through the proxy makes it grab little amounts of data a lot faster.
This is a BETA experience.
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