Ps4 download time throttled

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Mar 31, , pm EDT. James Plafke Former Staff. Running an app such as Netflix or Spotify narrowed the receive window to KB, which is still "a 5x reduction in potential download speed," and playing an online match in a networked game closed it down to the 7 KB threshold. Putting the PlayStation 4 into its rest mode "had no effect," he writes. Complicating matters is that the PlayStation 4 doesn't always make it clear what programs are running.

Many users are accustomed to closing a game from the dashboard or being told the system is doing so when they boot up a new one while another is in the background, thinking that takes care of it. But other applications, like Spotify or a streaming video service, can keep on going. Whatever the blame, all kinds of anecdotal complaints and observations of the PlayStation 4's inconsistent download behavior have taken hold over the past four years.

Does putting the machine to rest help? Why are my downloads faster after this firmware update? Snellman attributes the latter to an update closing every open application after the system reboot.

And Snellman posits that there are legitimate reasons for limiting the receive window. But that doesn't excuse the limitations enforced by secondary apps like Netflix, he argues.

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