Crossover transfer speeds and timing issues.

[Derfel]

Seeing how there was no answer to my previous issue of slow transfer speeds on a router, I got a cat5e crossover cable. My concern is that the same slow transfer speeds persist. Well, maybe a tad faster, but still not surpassing the 400kb/s mark. I tried to transfer data between two computers and the results were rather... fascinating. The transfer speeds seemed unstable, jumping between 70kb/s and 2mb/s quite randomly. When I tried to use a different computer to hold my converted games, the results were much the same, nothing higher than 400kb/s. Now, I'd like to as whether this is, in fact, normal? I am starting to believe that it is, but I have read about people who could run games with decent load speeds and without video stutter and the like.

I'm playing Digital Devil Saga 2, and the game freezes at the same point during a video, which I assume is a timing issue or something of that sort, as the video, the audio, the subtitles and an interactive question (one I have to answer to) asked by the actual game interface, are all out of sync.

Am I right in assuming that this is a timing issue?

May I add also that I'm on a PAL PS3.

Thank you

[TnA]

I hope someone helps you, since I have no solution for your problem.

But I can say, that this shouldn't happen.

Maybe you can try to "play" with some settings in your router.
Try port-forwarding, or similar stuff which has to do with your "local network-config".

[redbeard]

Hi Derfel,
The weak link is most likely the PS3, which for reasons I don't really understand performs significantly slower than a PS2 loading games using OPL from SMB.

[TnA]

I thought that it was atleast faster, when it is NOT wirreless-connected to the network.

[Delyrium]

I would agree that the problem might be your PS3 regarding slow speeds using OPL.

However constant unstable transfer speeds is odd, you should check the settings of your network card as it seems you get instability with either crossover cable and router.

I have that game and recently played it, to me it also freezes at that point (Which is where Heat appears to confront the party, plus a lot of more FMVs afterwards) using OPL as I have stated on the compatibility thread. If you play from the DVD rather than use OPL you would notice that at the point where the video freezes and eveything else continues to work just fine there's some kind of skip which seems to imply that it loads a different video at that point in a different way that it normally does it, so it is not a continuos FMV.

It also freezes at an early FMV too with the same symptom.

I doubt in this case it is related to that instability you have.

[redbeard]

I thought that it was atleast faster, when it is NOT wirreless-connected to the network.

Wired > wireless yes, but even wired PS3 speed is nowhere near that of a PS2.

To be honest since the GUI merge I haven't managed to get wireless to work at all, but I had abandoned wireless a long time ago anyway due to poor performance.

Using exactly the same wired network setup I get almost double the network throughput on a PS2.

[Derfel]

Thank you all for the suggestions and input. I couldn't reply any earlier, I was away. I will play around with the wireless and wired setup and see how it goes. I guess I have every reason to suspect my router as well, which is a bastard I can tell. I would like to say I'll report my findings, but given my knowledge in the field, I could hardly discover anything amazing.