I just went and installed everything with texlive in the name. A few were less than 1KB, a few over 1GB. Download speed peaked at less than 3MB/s. My Internet is a fiber connection with symmetric gigabit. However, I think picking at this info is the wrong tack. I am of the opinion this should be considered in the abstract and general to keep away from my situation and to more apply towards all use cases.
On Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 4:06 AM Christopher Baines <m...@cbaines.net> wrote: > > Josh Marshall <joshua.r.marshall.1...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Presently, I am waiting until the end of global warming to finish > > pulling down texlive packages. I see that there are a few servers > > from which packages are provided. Is the following feasible as a > > feature to improve effective download speed? > > It really depends. Can you give some examples of what you're downloading > and what speeds you're getting, and what speed your internet connection > can do in an optimal case (some file you've seen to download the > quickest)? >
