Does ps4 have a download cap

This is a great circular firing squad where Sony could blame your cable company which can blame your router and back and then no one ever has to be responsible. But Snellman says he observed a jaw droppingly small "receive window" when anything was running in the background on the PS4. Snellman says he ran two tests, the first with the download running in the foreground but a Netflix application running in the background. When the Netflix app closed, the receive window increased significantly.

So Snellman began a second test that introduced all kinds of different background functions to see what would happen. In one, the game Styx: Shards of Darkness idled in its title screen. That shrank the receive window to 7 KB. Snellman stresses this the artificial limit "appears to only apply to PSN downloads" — i. And, notably, running the console's built-in speed test will not reveal the reduced download capacity.

For me, this is one of the most maddening things, to see a download is taking forever, to check what is wrong with my network connection and be told everything is A-OK. A receive window of 7 KB "is an incredibly low value; it's basically going to cause the downloads to take times longer than they should," Snellman explains.

Running an app such as Netflix or Spotify narrowed the receive window to KB, which is still "a 5x reduction in potential download speed," and playing an online match in a networked game closed it down to the 7 KB threshold. Putting the PlayStation 4 into its rest mode "had no effect," he writes. Complicating matters is that the PlayStation 4 doesn't always make it clear what programs are running.

Many users are accustomed to closing a game from the dashboard or being told the system is doing so when they boot up a new one while another is in the background, thinking that takes care of it. Sign Up for free or Log In if you already have an account to be able to post messages, change how messages are displayed, and view media in posts.

Boards PlayStation 4 is there a speed cap on psn? User Info: bob15x. User Info: RyuuHou No, but there's definitely throttling and speed caps with Rogers. Also, the PS4 speed test will never accurately show you what speeds you are getting. User Info: Thermador But, you already have proof "While you were wasting your time castrating a priceless antique, I was systematically feeding babies to hungry mutated puppies! RyuuHou25 posted I know i might need to get a router because my wifi speeds dropped in half after I switched on my pc, consoles are all wired.

But i heard all their routers suck when it comes to wifi. I love how rogers never tells you when they do that. User Info: dupadupa. But thats a bit strange the xbox is 5 times faster. Did you try some of the speedtest services from the ps4s browser?

It's most likely karma or lies, xbot bob. Its generally true and I notice this too. I don't use a Gateway. As for your question I believe Type 1 is a direct connection into the modem. Correct me if I'm wrong. I have Mbps and get about what you get on PS4. Xbox uses my speeds completely and downloaded faster. Cancel X. Topic Archived First Page 2 of 2. Sign Up for free or Log In if you already have an account to be able to post messages, change how messages are displayed, and view media in posts.

User Info: bkwf. User Info: starcrunch Mothra posted So I've managed to get a brand new router with a bunch of Gigabit ports. The initial time estimate was 10 minutes as it downloaded a MB or so each second.

Then after a few minutes it slowed down and the file ended up taking 30 minutes to download. Cables are brand new Cat 6 by the way. This rumor seems to be gathering steam.