You might want to make sure to pre-load games or get your downloads in as early as you can, on the PlayStation 4. Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that they would be working to ensure the stability of the PlayStation Network in Europe by carefully managing the heightened traffic due to recent country-wide lockdowns. According to Sony themselves, European PlayStation owners will have to deal with "somewhat slower" or "delayed" game download speeds from their servers. The statement was also posted to the North American Official PlayStation Blog, though it did not specify users in that region specifically. This follows other tech-related companies throttling or slowing speeds, to help deal with so many people using services like Netflix or YouTube, or after both Xbox Live and Nintendo Online services both suffered down-time.

UPDATE: If you are in the United States, as of March 26th, you will now be experiencing slower download speeds on PSN, as Sony is throttling traffic there as well.

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[Justinde75]

I'll say this one last time. The slow PS4 dl speeds were introduced in a firmware update quite a while back. The solution is using your PC as a proxy server to your PS4 when downloading games. Goodbye slow PS4 download speeds.

1. Download and install CCProxy on your computer.
2. After launching your proxy server, you can see the proxy server IP and port number (from the HTTP port listing).
3. In CCProxy, you can just hit the Options menu to get this info. Default port is 808.
4. Now, on your PS4, set up the internet connection.
5. Use the custom setup instead of the easy setup. Select auto for everything except the proxy.
6. Enter the proxy IP and port number you previously got from your CCProxy server.
7. Now, your PS4 will go through CCProxy.

Now kindly stop crying about how bad it is and DO something about it yourselves. This is a 100% tried and true method.

If you have to do something like this instead of being able to download it normally that makes the servers shit.

 

[Cyan]

deadliner, thank you for that information.
I didn't even know about it before that speed limitation this week.

Oh and I see you even edited your hint to add a guide. thanks for doing that for other users

 

[Bladexdsl]

Now kindly stop crying about how bad it is and DO something about it yourselves. This is a 100% tried and true method.

can you do this with the switch?

 

[D34DL1N3R]

If you have to do something like this instead of being able to download it normally that makes the servers shit.

Um. No. it has ZERO to do with the servers. What it actually means is that their servers are fine and are allowing full speed downloads. It's a PS4 firmware issue, not a server issue.

I also JUST timed the download, installation, and setup of CC Proxy and setting up the proxy setting on the PS4. Total time was 2m 11s. But I guess, if a person would rather wait the 10 hrs to download a game. Shrug.

can you do this with the switch?

Sorry, no idea. I do not have a Switch. If it allows for proxy settings in it's internet connection, then yes, you can do it. Although whether or not it effects the dl speed on a Switch is something I have no knowledge of. You could always try it out and report back for other Switch users.

 

[Cyan]

I used CCproxy for the switch, but to filter out nintendo's servers and allow other websites.
I don't think it'll change the connection speed though.

 

[Bladexdsl]

I don't think it'll change the connection speed though.

 

[Justinde75]

Um. No. it has ZERO to do with the servers. What it actually means is that their servers are fine and are allowing full speed downloads. It's a PS4 firmware issue, not a server issue.

Having to go through all this because sony put a bottleneck on speed makes this even worse. Stop defending this garbage

 

[D34DL1N3R]

Having to go through all this because sony put a bottleneck on speed makes this even worse. Stop defending this garbage

You're completely failing to understand. No one defended anything. They could simply fix it with a FW update but they refuse. I'm not defending it, I'm letting people know there is a 100% working method to get around it. Huge difference. And "having to go through all of this"? C'mon. It takes TWO MINUTES to download, install, and set up. TWO MINUTES!!! But okay, whatever works best for you I guess. If you'd rather it take potentially hours, and hours, and hours longer than necessary to dl a game, instead of simply taking the two minutes to set this up... more power to ya, but then lol and smh.