What does PS3 Software upgrade, Starhub and Earth Day have to do with each other? They are well connected, in fact.
Last night, I tried to upgrade my PS3 system software to 2.70. As it doesn’t yet support Wireless 802.11n which is connected to Apple Extreme Base Station and SingNet 10 Mbps service, I used Starhub MaxOnline 8Mbps service connected to Linksys Wireless 802.11g. Guess what, It takes forever, each percertage increase takes at least 2-4 minutes. The whole update should only be about 100 MBytes.
So while I’m upgrading the software, I can’t do anything with the console. It takes more less an hour and generated a lot of heat on the console. If I recall, PS3 uses about 300+ Watts about 3x what Lenovo Thinkpads and Apple Macbook Pro uses. Given the slowness of Starhub Broadband, I am thinking that I should have used my SingNet service. I pulled a long ethernet cable and connected my PS3 to Apple Base station. Voila, very fast about 1 megabyte/sec or so.
So I just wanted to highlight: Slow ISP will use more of your electricity and takes a lot of your time. Change to a faster one even with some price premium, you’ll be glad you did. Not only that, you’ll use less electricity and save the earth !!!
