XZUMER  |  May 21st, 2010 at 5:23 pm

I would like a download manager or for it to do what my accelerator does, if the speed goes below a certain point, it pauses the dl and starts again. I know, often when I pause a dl and then resume it on PS3, it seems to start dl faster at the start and slows down after awhile, sometimes.

LEONOFDEATH  |  May 22nd, 2010 at 10:39 am

Yes, PSN download speeds are horrible.

LEONOFDEATH  |  May 22nd, 2010 at 10:40 am

I see no reason to vote this down! Some people are so stupid.

Visi_Ace  |  May 22nd, 2010 at 12:19 pm

To see how this works in practice look at these images:

Without acceleration
http://i831.photobucket.com/albums/zz237/Visi_Ace/Segmented1.png

With accelleration
http://i831.photobucket.com/albums/zz237/Visi_Ace/Segmented2.png

bitcloudrzr  |  May 22nd, 2010 at 1:00 pm

Or they could uncap the download speed. I voted up, but my idea is better.

FJ1100_rider  |  May 22nd, 2010 at 1:53 pm

there is no download speed cap on psn , and the only reason you’ll have slow speeds is because of your isp or router settings

99% of users have great download speeds , a friend of mine took 1 hour to download the modnation racers demo and I got it in 12 minutes – we both have the same isp and router
I went and showed him how to open the right ports and set up his router properly and his download speed when testing at the ps3 went from 2mbs to 18mbs

it had nothing to do with psn – internet speeds are your responsibility
get fast internet service , and setup your connection right and you’ll have better downloads without needing an accelerator .

seriously , it’s all on your end – if if wasn’t then everyone would have slow downloads
you can easily get 20mbs downloads – I have 19.6mbs and most downloads take between 3 and 5 minutes .

Visi_Ace  |  May 22nd, 2010 at 1:59 pm

I agree, but unfortunately there are many countries outside of US, UK and the other big centra where Internet access is at a premium. South Africa being one of them. If you add all those users together, it would be a larger number than one may think. Where I am the fastest Internet is 4mbps and that is very expensive. You may not notice a download accelerator at your speeds as it may make a one minute difference for you, but for us it would make a 100% difference. Such an accelerator can be in the background and invisible to users, so no-one would even have to know it is there – downloads will just take shorter.

carlosm71  |  May 22nd, 2010 at 6:05 pm

@FJ1100: could you post how, or a link? thanks

FJ1100_rider  |  May 24th, 2010 at 12:05 pm

here are the ports to open :
tcp 80 , 443 , 5223 , 10070-10080 > udp 10070 , 3478 , 3479 , 3658
also enable upnp
that will allow free access to psn without restrictions

hope it helps – I personally tripled my download speeds by setting these ports to open in my firewall settings .
they’re all listed on the sony support website

shaykrethashke  |  May 25th, 2010 at 6:41 am

Maybe using a builtin torrent technology or P2P would optimize even more the network than a simple download accelerator…

BillyBoy2  |  May 27th, 2010 at 4:14 am

Yes, just use torrent technology instead, would even save Sony some bandwidth cost.

hadibadran10  |  June 29th, 2010 at 3:07 am

Download accelator plus
DAP Should be on PS3 Its soo cool,it has premium package for PC,PSN+ Members will get the premium package of DAP!

rioneye  |  August 9th, 2010 at 9:27 pm

@6 You expect everyone who has a ps3, of which there are some who aren’t tech savy, to set up ports for faster downloads, when it’s not our responsibility. Wouldn’t it be easier for sony to open up those ports?

SukiNihon  |  October 10th, 2010 at 4:28 pm

“It will shorten download time considerably.”

No it wouldn’t.
Using 1 thread, the bandwidth is divided by 1
Using multiple, divides the bandwidth by the number of threads.
You still download at the same rate.

SukiNihon  |  October 10th, 2010 at 4:29 pm

“Yes, just use torrent technology instead, would even save Sony some bandwidth cost.”

Agreed.

SukiNihon  |  October 10th, 2010 at 4:30 pm

“Wouldn’t it be easier for sony to open up those ports?”

Yes, it’s easier for Sony to hack your router and open them.

ASKOOR19  |  January 21st, 2011 at 9:52 pm

they must make a download accelerator for ps3 so we can feel rest of network disconnecting .. becouse we don’t have time for repeating the download of same file 20 times .. when i reach 20% (30 min) it says (( error code 80710723 )) .. every time .. I need the accelerator very soon i hope …