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No %#*^ing way is he saturating a 25gbit connection to download a PS5 game — not on Sony’s EMEA servers anyway. He’d download the largest PS5 game out there (Bo
by zahma 4y ago
No %#*^ing way is he saturating a 25gbit connection to download a PS5 game — not on Sony’s EMEA servers anyway. He’d download the largest PS5 game out there (Borderlands at 50GB) in a minute anyway — probably before he could reach the full 25gbit. On a gigabit connection, he could download Borderlands in under 7 minutes. If that’s too long too wait, then having a faster connection isn’t this guy’s problem.
The only use case I can think of would be bit torrent where lots of peers housed in server farms could lead to full saturation. I’ve seen download speeds at 150MB/s. That’s still a measly 1.2Gbit. But even when you’re talking about downloading remuxed 2160p files (~50-75GB) or the occasional collection (~100-200GB), I don’t see the need since it takes time to connect to the swarm and saturate those connections. Unless of course you want to seed it to the whole world.
Cool to have such big pipes, and I’m glad Switzerland is doing some good for science and proving to other ISPs that there’s profit to be had in avoiding rate limiting, but this is so wildly unnecessary.
- thfuran 4y ago>On a gigabit connection, he could download Borderlands in under 7 minutes. If that’s too long too wait, then having a faster connection isn’t this guy’s problem Why should he have to wait several minutes?
- arcade79 4y agoFirst off, I trust Stapelberg, as I had him as an intern ~10 years ago :P Secondly, I'd like to point out that I wired up my house for 1Gbit about 20 years ago. And I've been frustrated about the lack of home equipment for 10Gbit for about 15 years. I mean, I reached download speeds of 150MB/s about ~15 years ago. What The Actual Fuck. No, I don't live in the US, nor the Neterlands, nor Switzerland.
- jshier 4y agoBorderlands at 50GB isn't the largest PS5 game. I don't know what is but Horizon Forbidden West was ~90GB.
- 411111111111111 4y agoThe last spiderman was something around 200gb, and I think call of duty is even larger, but i don't play that. Their point still stands though: the download servers bandwidth usually throttles below gigabit, so it's gonna be hard to saturate that line today
- user- 4y ago> The last spiderman was something around 200gb That is not true at all? Spider man was like 70gb , miles morales was like 40gb
- 411111111111111 4y agoi could definitely be wrong, I thought i made that clear from my phrasing. A cursory google does seem like it was closer to my number then yours though. Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War Cross gen bundle / Ultimate edition - 283.5 GB minimum Spider-Man Miles Morales Ultimate Edition - 170.5 GB minimum Hitman 3 - 105.1 GB minimum Destiny 2 - 101.1 GB minimum The Last of Us 2 - 93.37 GB minimum
- calcifer 4y agoThose are uncompressed sizes, not download.
- oriolid 4y agoInstalled or download size? IDK about PS5, but many Steam games seem to do some decompressing during installation.
- scandinavian 4y agoI have it installed and it's 105 gb, like there are plenty of sources on google that claims. You picked the only one saying higher. https://gamerant.com/ps5-biggest-game-file-sizes-gb/ https://gamerant.com/ps5-biggest-game-file-sizes-gb/ Here's the offical site also saying 105 gb: https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/games/game/marvels-spider-man-miles-morales-ultimate-edition-ps5.3005728 https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/games/game/marvels-spid... Also it's two games, Miles Morales and the remake of the PS4 version of Spider-Man.
- mulmen 4y agoI believe Microsoft uses (used?) Bit Torrent for Windows updates. Can the Xbox do something similar? Assuming Sony uses similar technology are the PS5 downloads strangled by weak residential connections? Maybe specifically in your area?
- jeff18 4y agoThe PS5 only has a 1gig Ethernet port anyway. AT&T fiber recently rolled out 5 gigs in San Francisco and as far as I can tell, Steam is the only service that can saturate it. That’s after buying a 10 gig $100 network card and a $200 router which only has 2 10 gig ports. It’s going to be a few years before >1 gig internet is commonly supported.