After the content you wanted to download first is finished, you can resume the other downloads by following the same steps you used to pause them. Putting your PlayStation 4 in rest mode while downloading content increases speed. If it is, it will show up at the top of the list with a downloading bar. Domain Name System DNS is basically like the contact list in your phone, but for the entire internet.
It stores a list of websites and their corresponding IP internet protocol addresses. The default DNS server assigned to your home network is typically provided by your internet service provider. You have the option to change your default DNS server to another one to make things load faster. This should speed up PS4 downloads. Firmware is a piece of software that helps your hardware function properly.
Updating your firmware to the latest version will ensure your download speeds are fast and everything on your PS4 is running smoothly overall. To update your firmware:. All internet routers are not created equal.
Old router models can actually impact the quality of your gaming experience, even when using ethernet. There are routers specifically designed to improve gaming that includes Quality of Service QoS features. Routers with QoS features are often referred to as gaming routers. Each website has its own IP address, which is written in number form, such as It would be a bit of pain to memorise and type this into an address bar every time, so a DNS maps the website name, in this case google.
This basically means you can find a website by typing in its name into address bars and search engines instead of a convoluted difficult to remember IP address.
This just makes finding what you need when web browsing much easier and quicker, so DNS servers are a crucial part of the internet. DNS servers typically consist of 4 numbers separated by dots. Additionally there is usually a Primary and a Secondary DNS server so that if for whatever reason the primary DNS fails to look up a specific website, the secondary DNS will take over and route the user instead. We will go into these more in the next section. Although the default DNS servers provided by ISPs generally tend to work pretty well, it can be interesting to experiment changing them to see if it makes any difference to network efficiency on your games console.
Changing DNS servers on a games console is a very easy process, in this article we will focus more on on the PS4, where lag issues are generally more common than the Xbox One as most PS4 games use peer to peer connections rather than the dedicated servers that the Xbox One uses for online play.
In reality there are many different DNS services out there, some paid and some unpaid, which basically do the same job of mapping website names to IP addresses. Some DNS services are designed to filter out or block specific content such as violence or adult related sites. Your console will then map through those servers instead of the default ones provided by your ISP to get where it needs to go.
This is a complex issue to sift through on the different forums, blogs and websites, but it effectively boils down to this: Changing DNS settings MAY in some cases improve Download and Upload Speeds, but there is no real conclusive evidence that it improves latency or lag. As we have detailed in our article on the subject, latency and bandwidth download and upload speeds are two separate factors and it is actually latency that is more important for online gaming.
So if you are looking to reduce lag for online gaming then it is unlikely that changing the DNS settings on your console will help. If you want to use a Wi-Fi connection for your PS5 and we very strongly recommend using Ethernet cable to get better speeds and lower latency to substantially improve your gaming experience , then do the following. Therefore, rather than just randomly pick DNS servers, you could measure the ping e.
Here are the results we got:. In our case, there was a substantial difference about This shows the importance of determining the best DNS servers to use at your specific location as there is not one best setting for everyone.
This approach will not work. All a speed test will give you is a speed test measurement from the speed test server itself, and any ping value provided will be for the speed test server itself. Please note that while ping measurements are useful to to pick DNS servers that minimise transmission delays, they do not tell you about any processing delays that take place on the server itself when it performs a DNS look-up.
Gamers often find that lag is worst when the network is busy, and this problem gets even worse when they are on Wi-Fi — see point 1 above. This can be great for reducing lag at peak times. See our article on configuring QoS for the PS4 for more on how to do this. Placing your PS4 into the DMZ section of your router fully opens it up to the internet for the best connection possible to servers and other gamers. See our article on DMZ for the steps to use this feature.
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