[Whytey]

I have a 20mb cable connection and i usually get download speeds just under 2mb/s with computers that are in the same place as it with a good adapter, i'm running wireless on the ps3 which says it has got 100% signal strength to my router and it took 5 hours to download burnout, but i do not get high pings whilst gaming. Will this be something to do with being on f/w 2.20? because its really slow, if so can i format the drive and will it go back to the orginal firmwire and fix the prob?

thx
whytey

[GOT2MOVE]

well i was downloading warhawk and whilst it was downloading i decided to play cod4 so i left it in the download manager at exactly 12%

I went playing cod4 ONLINE for about 30-40 mins came back and it was at 13% !!! then every 5 seconds it went up a percentage I'm sure its too todo with playing online games

[Whytey]

weird. i wasnt playing any games

[Pirate]

Do a speed test on PC and PS3 to see what is causing issues, most likely if wireless, you have a crappy router. I recommend Belkin Pre-N for long range or WRT54G router.

[Whytey]

where did you get the idea of me having a crappy router
i have a WRT54GS w/ speed booster and like i said in my first post i've had my computer in the same position with a wireless adapter getting speeds just under 2mb/s games do not lag or have high ping either.

Which speed test do you recommend?

[Pirate]

Any is fine.

What is the NAT type of your PS3 by the way? If you don't know how to find this, there is a tutorial on forums to show you how (use search).

If it is NAT type 3, you should follow tutorials on forums to convert it to NAT type 2 - thus the reason of your PS3 "lag".

[Whytey]

when you say ps3 lag are you referring to the slow downloads?

and btw i'm on cable

[gamer35]

mine goes pretty fast im connected with an ethernet cable using a netgeear router

[ManaBurnX]

I also had slower speeds until I changed the DNS and did some port forwarding and then it greatly increased my speed. Unfortunately I'm an American that is living in Thailand so I have to use the ISPs that are located here and they all suck. I can only get a 2mbps line here and the maximum speed I can download at is around 220kbps...

[spy007z]

I have found that download speed drops when you play game that require more power of your machine like COD4 / Burnout etc... If you play nite game like Super Rub Duck then your download speed woundn't drop that much.