Ps4 download throttle

Manufacturer Thrustmaster. Model No. Drivers for Operating System s Windows 10 64bit. The agonizingly slow download speeds of Sony's PlayStation Network are well-documented. It's especially obnoxious when you come home from a long day of work, ready to play a newly released game or expansion, but are faced with an update that is estimated to finish downloading long after your bedtime.

Many "fixes" have been discussed over the years -- manually changing your DNS server to Google's, for instance -- but most are snake oil. This fix, though, might actually work for you, as some internet sleuthing and personal testing have revealed a high success rate. You're going to set up a local proxy on your computer and run your PS4's internet connection through that for downloads.

As someone who's had PSN download speed problems for years -- especially on the day of a release or major update -- I found myself frequently Googling for and testing out potential fixes that never worked.

Changing DNS servers, ritualistically switching between WiFi and Ethernet, superstitiously pausing and unpausing downloads at different completion percentages, and even trying to let all downloads progress while the PS4 is in Rest Mode. Nothing ever worked. Are you up to the challenge? In-Game Purchases, Users Interact. To play this game on PS5, your system may need to be updated to the latest system software. Although this game is playable on PS5, some features available on PS4 may be absent.

See PlayStation. Juho Snellman, a systems programmer in Zurich, Switzerland, cautions that there may be other reasons for a slow download that are specific to a user's network or internet service provider. 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.