Data Transfer

[John.Totersburg]

Is there anyway to speed this transfer up my dad says I can leave the internet on for another night and I can’t pause the transfer. What do I do to speed it up I am also using a lan cable connecting both of the ps to each other

[Eigenvektor]

Are you sure you're transferring from PS4 to PSx? At Gigabit speed that transfer should take less than an hour. Are you using at least a Cat 5e cable? Of course you can't exactly change the cable without restarting the transfer.

[John.Totersburg]

I’m using a yellow cable that I connect from my router to my computer and it’s PS4 to PS5 transfer not sure what psx stands for on the cable it says cat 5 hope this info helps

[John.Totersburg]

9 minutes ago, John.Totersburg said:

I’m using a yellow cable that I connect from my router to my computer and it’s PS4 to PS5 transfer not sure what psx stands for on the cable it says cat 5 hope this info helps

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[Eigenvektor]

2 minutes ago, John.Totersburg said:

I’m using a yellow cable that I connect from my router to my computer and it’s PS4 to PS5 transfer not sure what psx stands for on the cable it says cat 5 hope this info helps

PSx as in I don't know which one it is (PS4 to PS3/4/5/whatever). The consoles are connected directly, or are you going through your router?

 

Color of the cable is irrelevant. Cat 5 generally has a maximum speed of 100 Mbit. 325 GB at 100 Mbps should still only take a little over 8 hours.

 

Both the PS4 and PS5 should support gigabit transfer speed, but in that case you'll want a Cat 5e or Cat 6 cable. Is the cable you're using in good shape, i.e. no broken wires no tight bends or kinks? The cable's isolation intact?

[John.Totersburg]

@EigenvektorI connected them directly to try and not use our internet because our internet is super slow like 100 kb/s-1.5mb/s but it is moving faster then our internet I’m getting at least 3-4mb/s. The cable looks fine and the connections are secure

[Eigenvektor]

3 minutes ago, John.Totersburg said:

@EigenvektorI connected them directly to try and not use our internet because our internet is super slow like 100 kb/s-1.5mb/s but it is moving faster then our internet I’m getting at least 3-4mb/s. The cable looks fine and the connections are secure

I assume you mean 3-4 MB/s (not Mb/s, that would be 8 times slower…). It should complete in roughly 26 hours in that case. I'd retry with a Cat 6 cable and make sure the consoles are not communicating over Wi-Fi, because at gigabit the transfer should complete in less than an hour.

 

For reference, a 100 Mbps connection should give you ~12.5 MB/s (100 Mb/s / 8 = 12.5 MB/s)

1 Gbps (1000 Mbps) should give you up to 125 MB/s

[John.Totersburg]

11 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

I assume you mean 3-4 MB/s (not Mb/s, that would be 8 times slower…). It should complete in roughly 26 hours in that case. I'd retry with a Cat 6 cable and make sure the consoles are not communicating over Wi-Fi, because at gigabit the transfer should complete in less than an hour.

 

For reference, a 100 Mbps connection should give you ~12.5 MB/s (100 Mb/s / 8 = 12.5 MB/s)

1 Gbps (1000 Mbps) should give you up to 125 MB/s

ok so buy a cat 6 cable restart without wi-fi and it should be under an hour? Also is this cable good?

Edited December 26, 2022 by John.Totersburg

[Eigenvektor]

1 minute ago, John.Totersburg said:

ok so buy a cat 6 cable restart without wi-fi and it should be under an hour?

Unless there's something else limiting your speed, but I can't really think of another factor.

 

From what I can see the PS4's default drive is limited to around 100 MB/s, so you won't get the full 125 MB/s of gigabit, but it should still be significantly faster than 99 hours.