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

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?

What's giving you that 851kb figure?

What's giving you that 851kb figure?

Dude, please

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

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.

Wireless for gaming? You're basically asking for it. Both my PC and PS4 are connected using Ethernet powerline.

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.

Do electromagnetic transmissions suffer from the inverse square law?

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.

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.

Cannot tell if serious.

Does a WiFi signal get less strong linearly or exponentially?

Does a WiFi signal get less strong linearly or exponentially?

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.

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.

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!

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?

What the fuck would physicists know about sex?

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

What the fuck would physicists know about sex?

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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...