I am now getting sick and tired of how long it takes the PS3 to download trailers, game demos etc but most of all why it takes so long to download the System update.
On Friday I booted it up along with my 360 to see what there was to download, they are both connected via wireless and sit right next to each other so the exact same distance from my BT Home Hub.
The PS3 said it needed to download System update so I set it on it's way and moved onto the 360. I downloaded 5 game trailers each between 70MB and 230MB and then downloaded the demo for nuts and bolts which I think was just over 1GB.
When the nuts and bolts was the only thing left to download I moved back over to the PS3 and it was at 43%........*****???
I used my laptop, again over wireless and went onto the PS website to see how big the update file is, it was 137MB, I started to download from my laptop and it was downloading at 300k per second and estimated a few minutes.
So I ask why does the PS3 take so long to download what two other devices seem to sail thru?

Does anyone else encounter slow PS3 downloading?

did you consider the problem was that you were downloading all this stuff at once so the PS3 was the one to suffer using the least amount of your bantwidth.
also with system updates tak a little longer as it installs at the same time it downloads

many do, from time to time.
sometimes it's just one popular trailer that cloggs their server
because everyone wants to download a "sensation" at the same time

perhaps you start to exclude irritation factors next time it happens
- means try to switch to (cable-)LAN, or stop all tasks running on
the same 2.4 GHz frequency, i.e. all bluetooth activity for instance.

good luck

dont have it yet

don't know about that

okay
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dont know............