Transfer speed from PS3 to PC with ethernet/crossover cable is meh

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I've been doing a lot of transfers from my PS3 to my PC using PKG Linker 2.0 with a crossover cable and while the transfer speed of pkg files is not terrible it's not particularly great either, averaging around 14 MB/s according to my network monitor. What are your average transfer rates from PS3 to PC? I know they're both capable of much faster when directly connected via cable, at least theoretically. My PC's Ethernet port is a gigabit for example. I'm assuming the PS3 is comparable, but 120 Mbps or so is almost a tenth of that. Are there any tips or tricks to get better speeds?
 
You mean it'll never get any better and I'm not going to be able to go vrooom vrooom with my PS3 to PC ethernet? 14 MB/s is the fastest anyone ever gets? Wah wah! Well, at least I know it's the norm now. To put things into perspective I should just think of the poor bastardos that use USB sticks with split archives to transfer big PKGs. Or as Mum used to say: "I cried because I had no Reeboks, until I saw a man with no feet."
 
Have you tried a gigabit switch in between devices using standard ethernet cables instead of a crossover? Also check your crossover cable to make sure it uses all 4 pairs crossed - gigabit uses all 4 pairs, unlike 100mbps which only uses 2 pair.
 
Crossover cable is not required if either device supports gigabit, which the ps3 does. All gigabit devices support auto crossover.
 
The 802.3z standard includes Auto-MDI/MDIX, but not all manufacturers implement it. You have to check the specs on your NIC and/or chipset.
 
i guess you have to consider the recording speed of the HDD too.. i don't know if it passes from 50Mb/s

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Prosencrantz said:
i guess you have to consider the recording speed of the HDD too.. i don't know if it passes from 50Mb/s

Enviado de meu SM-G930F usando o Tapatalk
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Yep, when looking about this problem we considered the hdd speeds, this is why in the table in wiki appears the hdd model
Look at the thread @Omage mentioned (that has a link to wiki) http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/Talk:GbLAN#FTP_speed_changes_between_firmwares
Later we realized the hdd doesnt makes much difference
Neither the ethernet cable btw... CAT6e is recommended, but CAT5e had similar speeds

The client/server software in PC/PS3 side are important though
But what is really "capping" the speeds is some official code inside LV2, joonie made the test to confirm it

Later i remember there was some talks about how official firmware handle the multithread hdd access, my bet is this speculation was in the right direction, it looks sony added some "safety" code to handle multithread hdd access around firmware 4.30, but is hard to know why they did it

The max FTP speeds we can achieve are around:
PS3 to PC = 50mb/s
PC to PS3 = 20mb/s
 
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sandungas said:
Yep, when looking about this problem we considered the hdd speeds, this is why in the table in wiki appears the hdd model
Look at the thread @Omage mentioned (that has a link to wiki) http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/Talk:GbLAN#FTP_speed_changes_between_firmwares
Later we realized the hdd doesnt makes much difference
Neither the ethernet cable btw... CAT6e is recommended, but CAT5e had similar speeds

The client/server software in PC/PS3 side are important though
But what is really "capping" the speeds is some official code inside LV2, joonie made the test to confirm it

Later i remember there was some talks about how official firmware handle the multithread hdd access, my bet is this speculation was in the right direction, it looks sony added some "safety" code to handle multithread hdd access around firmware 4.30, but is hard to know why they did it

The max FTP speeds we can achieve are around:
PS3 to PC = 50mb/s
PC to PS3 = 20mb/s
Click to expand...


Any news? any solution to remove this limitation?
 
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