On the ps3 or ps4, using google's dns speeded up network downloads :)
Does anyone suspect Sony of knowing how to make online services?
Does anyone suspect Sony of knowing how to make online services?
When I lived in Malmö my ISP DNS would result in Akamai CDN content being served from Stockholm rather than Copenhagen which was a lot closer and faster.
When I switched to 1.1.1.1 this problem went away
Does DNS care about geolocation?
It measures distance in b/s dose it not?
It's a mess.
Or they have a vested interest in keeping customers hitting specific locations which may be suboptimal for the end user.
Around here some rather have you stay in their preferred AS as much a possible and stick to DCs in Paris than Frankfurt (to direct peering?), even though FRA is a stone throw away. This conveniently disappears when using ISP-independent DNS (at the cost of sometimes, some regional-specific content not being primed in the CDN, which I think is why sometimes downloads start slow then shoot way up).
e.g tested quickly today with mtr:
- Home to Akamai PAR1 = 8 hops:
1-5: ISP, 5 hops
6-7: Zayo, 2 hops
8: Akamai intx-par1
best: 22, worst: 80, stdev: 10
1-2: ISP, 2 hops
3: Akamai intx-fra1
best: 27, worst: 51, stdev: 4
If google would work, I could find the old forum threads about the problem. But not any more.
Oh I probably should have mentioned. The problem seems to have been global. Not any particular ISP.
First thing we do is pop the hidden browser on the console (if it's a PS5, where they decided to "remove" the browser) and run a speed test and it'll pull full rated speed of whatever service we throw at the user.
I can pull full wire speed from North America to Cape Town on a Playstation but god forbid you try to download from PSN in the same country. Doesn't matter what DNS we've used - be it our internal, Quad9, etc.
it's a pretty old story at this point but you can start from here?
Like IE6, or Microsoft bullying and corruption.
HP conning users with their printers.
Apple iphone home button scandal.
It just means bad actors can abuse clients again and again, and with a little PR and some time passing, they can get billions in without consequences.