PSN Thursday: The time for Trine

The issue with some people getting slow downloads on PSN has been around since the beginning, but it definitely seems less prevalent these days. Oddly enough, many people can actually get around the speed by running the connection through a proxy. And I'm not talking about an external proxy, you can just bounce it off a computer on your home LAN. See here:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=79&threadid=2284460

I don't know why this works, but I can confirm it does. A long while ago I had slow downloads... we're talking maybe 7-10s second to download 1 MB. The using Privoxy on one of my computers and ran my PS3's connection through that and my speeds jumped to 1-2 MB per second. Yes, 10-20x faster... basically the maximum of my internet connection. The main drawback is that some online games may not connect properly this way. So I'd just run through the proxy when I wanted to download a bunch of stuff and then turn it off at all other times. Once you enter a proxy the PS3 will save the setting for future use. So all you have to do is go in and check the setting to use the proxy, you don't have to re-enter the IP or anything.

Anyway, I did this for a few months and one day I forgot to turn on the proxy before I started a download and noticed my speeds were fast. I'm, not sure what changed, but now my download speeds are maxed out without the proxy.

By the way here's an update on the demo. Started download at 7:30 eastern time last night, it finished 12:30.

5 fucking hours to download a 2.4 GB demo. Again, it took me about 45 minutes to download a 6.4 GB game on my 360, which uses the same wireless connection and speed that my ps3 does and the ps3 is only 2 feet away from the 360 so it's not a distance problem.

then how about they post the results instead of just saying "it was the same. deal with it."? they easily could have made the playing field more even and less prone to error.

I was about to say the same thing. They didn't even include it in their Rock Band Weekly post last Friday either.

That's what I thought too. How did they hit the $9.99 pricing tier? I mean Oddworld is awesome and all but not MGS or FFIV awesome.

I enjoyed it quite a bit on the PC. For single-player mode there isn't a lot of replay value (unless you start off on Easy I suppose) but the mechanics are creative and the levels are fun. The final level is sick, too :) It becomes a totally different experience in cooperative multi-player mode, so if you have a friend who would get a kick out of a puzzle-action-platformer, make sure to have them join you!

Thanks!
Probably gonna wait for the demo though, unless i get mobbed by rave reviews!

If you have a steam account you can easily get the PC demo from there :)

$20, fuck that.

God I'm stupid. What I meant to say was the U2 motion comic is not on the Canadian PSN.

It's probably on the Video side of the Store.

Bugger.

How is Shadow Complex? I'm remember reading good things about it but I didn't pick it up yet (almost forgot actually until you just mentioned it).

It's really good if you like Metroid. It's less of an "homage" and more of a straight-up ripoff, but a really fun one at that.

NOT TO MENTION FREAKING HOT POCKETS PS3 THEME. OH YEAH.