This is to parallelize connections which should never hurt downloading but can help. Mirroring would be parallelizing for providing packages, what I want to implement is to parallelize obtaining packages. Server side vs client side.
On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 6:18 AM Christopher Baines <m...@cbaines.net> wrote: > > > Josh Marshall <joshua.r.marshall.1...@gmail.com> writes: > > > 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. > > The limited data I've seen suggests the download speeds people get from > the substitute servers vary a lot depending on their internet connecting > peering and location, so it's quite hard to consider this in an abstract > sense. Some people already get substitute download speeds that saturate > a gigabit connection, while some don't. > > There has been work on setting up mirrors though, e.g. see [1] for some > information and data on how these work for different people. > > 1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2023-05/msg00290.html
