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> It's probably just a placebo.

Possibly, but I think the OP above was onto something about it 'resetting' the windows. I just tested downloading a large game while I had another game running. The PS4 showed it was going to take 6 hours. I closed the other game I had running, and it still showed 6 hours. I ran the speed test, and now it shows it's going to take 50 minutes.

BTW, thanks for running these tests as I have some stuff to try instead of waiting hours for a game to download :)



My experience is that the finish time prediction isn't reliable. It's based average speed over the whole connection, not the current speed. So the projection will lag behind if the speed changes dramatically. Maybe the speedtest somehow resets the projection?

The measurement really needs to be done on the wire.


But how long did it end up actually taking?




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