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After buying my PS4 I noticed my connection speed was extremely slow compared to my connection on my PC and other devices. I would be getting 50down/4up on my PC, and around 8down/2up on my PS4. This lead to painstakingly slow downloads on my PS4. A 2GB file would take around 40 minutes which is unacceptable, especially considering digital downloads becoming more popular.

I'm aware several question-type threads about this have come up around here, but I have seen few solutions. After searching Google, I did find a solution that actually has fixed my speeds. I haven't seen a thread like this, and searched and didn't find one, but if there has been one, I apologize, but hopefully this will help people who don't know about this.

Basically, changing your primary and secondary DNS servers will usually give you speed a big increase.

Steps:

• Go to 'Settings'.

• Go to 'Network'.

• Go to 'Set Up Internet Connection'

• Select Wifi/LAN depending on what you use to connect.

• Select 'Custom'.

• IP Address Settings = Automatic

• DHCP Host Name = Do Not Specify

• DNS Settings = Manual

• Primary DNS: 8.8.8.8

• Secondary DNS: 8.8.4.4

• MTU Settings: Automatic

• Proxy Server: Do Not Use

8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are a Google DNS server from what I understand, and using those has helped a ton of people with their speed, HOWEVER, those did NOT help me. Try it. If it doesn't work, I'd recommending downloading 'Namebench', which is a program that checks for the best DNS server for your connection. It takes 5-10 minutes to run and will then tell you the best DNS servers to use.

I understand there are probably several different ways to do this, and several different setups, however, this worked for me. DMZ and other custom things didn't help me, but you can also try those setups.

After doing this setup, turn off your PS4, wait 5-10 minutes, and recheck your connection speed on your PS4. After doing this, I saw my speeds increase over double, to around 23down/4up.

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Due to their plug and play nature people often don’t bother setting up their internet connection properly on consoles, and this often results in lower performance compared to what they could achieve. Today Reddit user RemoteSenses posted a handy little suggestion on how to set your nameservers on PS4, which depending on your location could lead to a sensible improvement in the quality of your tethering to the world wide web.

First of all download Google’s Namebench on any PC and run it (try not to have any other download going on as you do, as it could throw the results off). It will benchmark all the available nameservers and find the ones that are fastest for you.

Once you’re done testing, write down the two fastest nameservers (marked Primary and Secondary on the top right of the web page that will be opened automatically, as you can see above) and open the settings menu of your PS4, then follow the steps below:

1. Go to “Network”
2. Go to “Set up Internet Connection”
3. Select “Use Wi-Fi” or “Use a LAN Cable” depending on whether you’re connected on wireless or via ethernet cable.
4. Select “Custom”
5. Select “Automatic”
6. Select “Do Not Specify”
7. Select “Manual”
8. Insert the two numbers you got before as your “Primary DNS” and “Secondary DNS” (don’t use those in the picture above, as they’re specific for me and showcased just as an example)
9. Select “Automatic”
10. Select “Do Not Use”

The method works for Xbox One as well, even if the procedure is slightly different, go to Settings and follow the steps below:

1. Go to “Network”
2. Go to”Advanced Settings”
3. Go to “DNS Settings”
4. Select “Manual”
5. Insert your numbers as primary and secondary DNS

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Unless your automatic settings are already optimal (which can happen, but it isn’t always the case), your performance should increase. By how much depends on how badly optimized your automatic settings are, and it depends on a large variety of factors including your location, your provider and several others.

Average Ps4 Download Speed

It’s worth mentioning that the quality of connection to nameservers varies over time, so you may want to actually repeat the process periodically. The method works on any other connected device as well, but of course each will have its own specific menu structure.