It is a bit annoying though, especially when the console simply refuses to download at the speeds it says it's getting. I've got an 8mb wireless connection and the console downloads at horrible speeds, especially compared to my 360 on the same network. Even if I DMZ the console it just sits there, plodding along.
It's not the PS3. This is a tired old ancient myth
(debunked time after time) based on "comments" by trolls and people who don't understand how their own networks work, their ISP's network work, and the many other issues that easily explain what you are describing and that have nothing to do with the PSN... and there are countless detailed explanation and guides on how to fix individual issues.
Again... logic clearly dictates that if the "issue" was the PSN, then most if not everyone would experience the same so-called slow speed, when in fact there have been 3rd party speed tests comparing the download speeds of identical files over XBL and PSN, and in many cases the PSN download time was faster.
Turn on my 360 and if there's an update (there rarely is) it downloads in seconds and I'm back gaming in under a minute.
Again, if you bothered to do some basic research you would know that the 360 only patches their system software rather than overwrite it (which is not nearly as "safe", but is faster), and as you even mentioned not very often - and not adding nearly the same amount of features as have been added to the PSN that XBL still does not have nor support - and with so infrequent updates, many "issues": go unfixed for long periods of time, despite the fact that - as you have claimed, you can be back gaming in under a minute... yet they don't fix issues in a more timely fashion - hmmmm....
It's not that big a problem, I've got plenty to do besides play games, but sometimes you just want a quick blast on GT5 and you can't!
Actually you can... and saying you can't is really ridiculous, and classic hyperbole.
Then they should make it optional and that keeps everyone happy, I don't want fixes for games I don't have and don't want to go through the worry of bricking the console twice a month.
Another grossly exaggerated myth. There has only been one update that has ever been associated with any reasonable amount of proof to have caused any PS3 to "brick" and even in that case, only a very small percentage of users even claimed it caused their PS3 to brick - and the issue was "fixed" shortly afterwards... and as I said and you confirmed, on average there is only one update per month - yet you even go so far as to claim you are worrying about it bricking twice a month -
when will all the ridiculous hyperbole end????
And actually nearly every month has had an update since the console has launched and there has NEVER been a period of several months between updates, the most ever was 3 months. Some months even had 3 updates and 2 updates in a month is not uncommon.
First of all three is "several". Second of all, on average there have been only ONE update a month... that's what I said, and that is a fact. It is not a fact that
on average there are two updates a month, or even more as you have suggested.
So
on average there is one mandatory update every month (of which there has only ever been a single case where only a small percentage of consoles that were bricked - and temporarily at that), and it takes less than 5 min to download unless you have a crappy network.
So once again, what's the great inconvenience here worthy of a public rant? 
