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Why are the connection speeds via PSN so fucking slow at the moment? 851kbps, through a fibre connectin that's showing as being 40mbps on the laptop. Is there anything I can do to speed this up? It's even causing fucking lag issues in Battlefront.

Are you wired or wireless to the router?
The wifi is pretty poor in mine.

Wireless, as is everything else. Who uses wires!?!?

The internet seems to say that PlayStations generally have had shit wireless, but this is taking the fucking piss.

People that care about bandwidth.

I think you may have answered your question in the first half of my quote.

Does your router have quality of service settings?

Wireless for gaming? You're basically asking for it. Both my PC and PS4 are connected using Ethernet powerline. The Wii U is wireless but I rarely game online with that.

Even with every other device switched off it's still getting a tiny fraction of the speed that the other devices are getting.


Dude, please

Myp - mayhap, but then I've been using wireless with the 360 for years and it's always been fine...It really shouldn't be achieving download speeds of < 1/40th of every other device.

What's giving you that 851kb figure?

Spanx.

the PS4 system internet connection thing. Whilst that may not be mega accurate (or so I read) it's shitty slow - I can tell that from the download times for any given update. Whereas the 360 will slurp down a 1gb download in zippy fast time.

Download times for updates are rarely much to do with your PS4 or its connection. They're incredibly throttled at Sony (or their CDN)'s end. That's why I was asking, you might not be getting anywhere near that bad a connection really.

I don't know if that's a yes or a no

Who am I? WHO AM I?

It's a "I haven't a fucking clue what you're talking about"

I'm constantly getting laggy lagness in Battlefront as well - which I wasn't getting a month or two ago.

It's all very vexing.

There's nothing magical about powerline just because it happens to be hacked on top of an existing wire. There are many circumstances under which it can be worse than WiFi.

if I move my PS4 into the lounge it will use the full 78mb, but one floor up it can slow to a crawl - 68 hours to download 10gb. Rebooting the router and console often fixes it.

So, just moved the router right next to the PS4, and it's shot up to 40mbps... Will try plugging it in via ethernet and see if it goes up any more. It was only 8 metres away to start with, though, FFS.

Will have to get a wireless repeater thingy so that the other end of the house can get wireless now.

Stupid PS4.

Do electromagnetic transmissions suffer from the inverse square law?

Cannot tell if serious.

Wi-Fi is somewhat directional you know. Sometimes adjusting aerials can make a big difference. If your router has multiple aerials, put one horizontal and one vertical. If it has no aerials, then make sure that the largest surface is facing the thing that needs the best signal. Routers don't tend to transmit 'backwards' very well.

Or... get a wire, you heathen.

I've solved this already, with my massive tech skillz.

It's always been much faster in my experience.

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Does a WiFi signal get less strong linearly or exponentially?

Erm... yeah. That.

The inverse square law was explicitly formulated after studying electromagnetic transmission, so, yes, by definition. It's because the fixed amount of energy in the wave is spread evenly [1] across the surface of an expanding sphere, and the surface of that sphere is 4πr^2. That's where the r^2 term comes from.

[1] assuming a perfectly uniform transmitter, which definitely exists alongside all the spherical hollow cows, and hey, look over there!

Doesn't wifi work in "steps" though? So if it's a 100Mb connection, once you're a certain distance away it'll drop down to 75Mb, and so forth. I may be misremembering my CCNA though.

Although an old GSM engineer's shorthand for signal propagation in cluttered environments (ie. 1-3 GHz passing through the stuff we make cities of) is to just use r^4 instead. It's pretty close to the observed signal dropoff.

5 GHz is actually a bit worse than 2.4 GHz in terms of penetration, but the bandwidth is much less crowded.

You're right. The client and mobile station will negotiate a stable bitrate (chosen from one of a number of tiers, depending on the precise flavour of the wifi spec and the chipsets in use) based on observed network conditions. But that's still rooted in the signal-to-noise ratio, which really comes down to the inverse-square law radiation plus interference; it's just underneath a few layers of abstraction.

keep talking science doc...

Physics, isn't it? I just nod at physics. No interest in it whatsoever.

I tried to hover over that.

What the fuck would physicists know about sex?

Well seeing as their work is mainly theoretical, probably a lot...

I have a child! I have had sex at least once!

You're also not a physicist.

More than mathematicians.

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I'm joining the PS4 community soon. What are your recommended games please. TIA

I very much like GTA V, even though I haven't had an online Bezzie session yet.

Doom, Doom doom doom, Doom doom doom, Doom doom doom doom doom doom.
Resogun would suit your 2d shooter skills for sure

Having said that wait for both to be on offer with PS+ I reckon.

Rocket League.

Resogun was one of the first PS+ titles and I doubt they would return to it so i'd just grab it , Doom has been on sale a few times but worth keeping an eye out.

My advice for you would be to put together a shortlist and then keep an eye on Savygamer and see when they go on sale (PSN basically always has a sale and just grab it when its cheaper) - not sure of your tastes overall but a few of the top games on Metacritic that i've played and really enjoyed on the PS4

The Last of us (even if you've already played the PS3 version)
Inside (the follow on game from the creators of Limbo)
Tomb Raider / Rise of the Tomb raider (if you've not played them on any other systems)
GTA V
Journey
Dangerous Golf
Bloodbourne
Dark Souls III
The Witcher 3
Shovel Knight
Resogun
Rocket League
Dead Rising collection (depends on how you feel about these but i'm enjoying returning to the series after a long break)
Resident Evil (on PS4 you can pick up 0 / 1 / 4 / 5 / 6 / Revelations 2 so if you like the series at all there is a wide range to play)
Wolfenstein (not as good as doom but you can pick it up for a few quid)
Until Dawn - go into this knowing nothing and just play through - ignore when people and things die and just play - its a really stand out game.
If you like Fighters SFV is 'okay' and there is a good port of SFIV
Nidhogg (again if you have not played it to death on other platforms)
Super Stardust Ultra
Amplitude






http://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/ ... /metascore

Doom. Uncharted 4. Fallout 4. Witcher 3. Ratchet & Clank. GTA V, if you didn't play it already or you want to play online with us.

Most of those you're very welcome to borrow from me, too. I still have them and are done with them.

Thanks. Might take you up on that.

see, you know my taste. I have most of those on my list already, apart from Witcher 3

Notes have been taken...

It would also be a handy excuse to see you for the first time in far too long.

Aye, I know Those are tailored recommendations.