fastest-mirror

[Rava]

Downloading onlyoffice-5.0rc1-alldesktops.xzm from https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/por ... t/bundles/ thinking for a mere 209M approx 1 hrs is to slow

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/Porteus_modules/5.0/office$ wget https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/porteus/x86_64/current/bundles/onlyoffice-5.0rc1-alldesktops.xzm
--2020-11-26 07:22:19--  https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/porteus/x86_64/current/bundles/onlyoffice-5.0rc1-alldesktops.xzm
Resolving ftp.nluug.nl (ftp.nluug.nl)... 145.220.21.40, 2001:67c:6ec:221:145:220:21:40
Connecting to ftp.nluug.nl (ftp.nluug.nl)|145.220.21.40|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 218640384 (209M) [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘onlyoffice-5.0rc1-alldesktops.xzm’

    onlyoffice-5.0r  15%[==>                 ]  32.49M  57.7KB/s    eta 45m 46s

so I did recall fastest-mirror and ran it, but that lists ftp.nluug.nl as my quickest mirror:

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0.320380	http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/porteus/
0.331711	http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/pub/linux/porteus/
0.486881	http://linux.rz.rub.de/porteus/
0.745921	http://www6.frugalware.org/mirrors/linux/porteus/
0.755279	http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/dl.porteus.org/
0.757574	https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/porteus/
1.503126	http://ftpmirror1.infania.net/mirror/porteus/
2.264167	http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/porteus/
3.383205	http://ftp.vim.org/ftp/os/Linux/distr/porteus/
4.000263	http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/porteus/

…

Are all the server really that slow?

[Ed_P]

Are all the server really that slow?

No.

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guest@porteus:~$ su
Password: 
root@porteus:/home/guest# wget https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/porteus/x86_64/current/bundles/onlyoffice-5.0rc1-alldesktops.xzm
--2020-11-26 01:54:29--  https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/porteus/x86_64/current/bundles/onlyoffice-5.0rc1-alldesktops.xzm
Resolving ftp.nluug.nl (ftp.nluug.nl)... 2001:67c:6ec:221:145:220:21:40, 145.220.21.40
Connecting to ftp.nluug.nl (ftp.nluug.nl)|2001:67c:6ec:221:145:220:21:40|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 218640384 (209M) [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘onlyoffice-5.0rc1-alldesktops.xzm’

onlyoffice-5.0rc1-a 100%[===================>] 208.51M  2.75MB/s    in 78s     

2020-11-26 01:55:47 (2.68 MB/s) - ‘onlyoffice-5.0rc1-alldesktops.xzm’ saved [218640384/218640384]

root@porteus:/home/guest#

Took me about 1 1/2 minutes.

Cinnamon 5.0rc2 x86_64

[donald]

@ Rava
May have something to do with how your ISP does the peering.
I for example can not download from dl.porteus.org at a reasonable speed.
I always get only some KB/s.

[Rava]

@ Rava
May have something to do with how your ISP does the peering.
I for example can not download from dl.porteus.org at a reasonable speed.
I always get only some KB/s.

That could be, on other sites I get much higher speed of course, or else writing the article would have made no sense.

Well, it is like it is. Patience is a virtue they say. xD

But lets presume ISP does some peering, could it then be that a slower server from the fastest-mirror script could actually be a quicker one for me?

[cad]

@ Rava

I would also think that it may have to do with your ISP. I downloaded the 267 MB porteus-4.0-i586.iso from dl.porteus.org last month, and it took just a few minutes (fast download). dl.porteus.org was also fast for me for previous downloads over the years. If you also experience this same problem (slowness) with large downloads from non-Porteus-related servers, maybe it's time to look into the elements responsible for your computer's internet connection (or complain to your ISP, perhaps?)...

[Rava]

I would also think that it may have to do with your ISP.
[…]
If you also experience this same problem (slowness) with large downloads from non-Porteus-related servers, maybe it's time to look into the elements responsible for your computer's internet connection (or complain to your ISP, perhaps?)...

It depends. I think it can vary depending on what other users nearby seem to do.
Like with my recent upload of 007-interlink-52.9.7634.linux-x86_64-gtk3_en_UK_rava_ln-interlink-bin.xzm to filehorst, I did need 4 attempts to get it up.
The transfer rate dropped to 100kB but at times even to 20kB.

When I paused the upload and restarted it it had 3.5MB and 2MB rate initially, then my ISP dropped the rate to usually 300kB.

I think that is what you get choosing a dirt-cheep ISP that guarantees not much bandwidth.

But they say patience is a virtue.

[cad]

I think that is what you get choosing a dirt-cheep ISP that guarantees not much bandwidth.

So, that's what the problem is likely to be...

[Rava]

So, that's what the problem is likely to be...

*insert sad puppy here*

Seems like it, but I also have times with e.g. 60 MB downloads taking no more than one minute which I consider quick.