How You Can Improve the Speed of Your Connection [PS4/XB1]

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  • Handleit_44
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    • Jun 2009
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    [ALL] How You Can Improve the Speed of Your Connection [PS4/XB1]

    Due to their plug and play nature people often don’t bother setting up their internet connection properly on consoles, and this often results in lower performance compared to what they could achieve. Today Reddit user RemoteSenses posted a handy little suggestion on how to set your nameservers on PS4, which depending on your location could lead to a sensible improvement in the quality of your tethering to the world wide web.

    First of all download Google’s Namebench on any PC and run it (try not to have any other download going on as you do, as it could throw the results off). It will benchmark all the available nameservers and find the ones that are fastest for you.

    Once you’re done testing, write down the two fastest nameservers (marked Primary and Secondary on the top right of the web page that will be opened automatically, as you can see above) and open the settings menu of your PS4, then follow the steps below:

    Go to “Network”
    Go to “Set up Internet Connection”
    Select “Use Wi-Fi” or “Use a LAN Cable” depending on whether you’re connected on wireless or via ethernet cable.
    Select “Custom”
    Select “Automatic”
    Select “Do Not Specify”
    Select “Manual”
    Insert the two numbers you got before as your “Primary DNS” and “Secondary DNS” (don’t use those in the picture above, as they’re specific for me and showcased just as an example)
    Select “Automatic”
    Select “Do Not Use”


    The method works for Xbox One as well, even if the procedure is slightly different, go to Settings and follow the steps below:
    Go to “Network”
    Go to”Advanced Settings”
    Go to “DNS Settings”
    Select “Manual”
    Insert your numbers as primary and secondary DNS


    Unless your automatic settings are already optimal (which can happen, but it isn’t always the case), your performance should increase. By how much depends on how badly optimized your automatic settings are, and it depends on a large variety of factors including your location, your provider and several others.

    It’s worth mentioning that the quality of connection to nameservers varies over time, so you may want to actually repeat the process periodically. The method works on any other connected device as well, but of course each will have its own specific menu structure.










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    I'm sure some of you may have done this already but if you haven't, give it a try.


    Worked for me!
  • Handleit_44
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    • Jun 2009
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    #2
    Anybody else besides me have any luck trying this?

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    • Twigg4075
      Kindergarten Cop
      • Feb 2009
      • 20056

      #3
      I haven't had any issues downloading stuff on PS4. I haven't really downloaded anything besides updates on XBOne.

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      • leaffan
        Colton Orr Fan
        • Feb 2009
        • 11082

        #4
        Originally posted by Handleit_44
        Anybody else besides me have any luck trying this?
        Outside of your ISP having some serious DNS issues (ISP throttling or the thing is just broken) I don't really see how that would speed it up much more unless you live in a big city where one of the google nameservers is close to you.

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        • Handleit_44
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          • Jun 2009
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          #5
          Through the PS4 connection test, I was averaging about 15-20 (down) and around 2 (up)


          Getting about 30-35 (down) and 5-6 (up) now.

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          • leaffan
            Colton Orr Fan
            • Feb 2009
            • 11082

            #6
            Originally posted by Handleit_44
            Through the PS4 connection test, I was averaging about 15-20 (down) and around 2 (up)


            Getting about 30-35 (down) and 5-6 (up) now.
            What do you get on your PC with the same DNS settings that gave you the slower down?

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            • Handleit_44
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              • Jun 2009
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              #7
              Originally posted by leaffan
              What do you get on your PC with the same DNS settings that gave you the slower down?


              Computer was never an issue...


              42 (down), 31 (up)

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              • leaffan
                Colton Orr Fan
                • Feb 2009
                • 11082

                #8
                Originally posted by Handleit_44
                Computer was never an issue...


                42 (down), 31 (up)
                That really doesn't make any sense to me. There has to be some sort of network throttling going on.

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