On 02/16/2018 11:20 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Hello lyx users, > > it has been brought to our(=developers) attention that downloading speed of > lyx > installers might become too slow on various places over the globe. The size of > installers was steadily growing past years and 220 MB might indeed pose > problem > in case users end up with connections speeds about ~10kbs... > > That's why this small poll - we would be intersted to know how bad the > situation > generally is -- especially outside of Europe. > > If you have one minute of spare time could you download this file > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.3/lyx-2.3.0rc2/LyX-2.3.0rc2+qt5-x86_64-cocoa.dmg > and report: > > 1. time to download (/ download speed) > 2. country (and/or domain) where you download from > 3. whether you download from home/academic network/large company... > (you don't have to report more details than it feels comfortable...) > > Both good and bad answers matter, we want to know whether this is sporadic > or widespread problem. > > In case your download of the link above is more than couple seconds, it would > be useful if you also reported whether some of the mirror servers listed at > http://www.lyx.org/Download#toc11 which are closer to your geographical > location perform better.
Hi, Pavel, I am in a hotel in Austin TX at the moment, so using the hotel's wifi. Downloading from ftp.lyx.org, I'm seeing speeds fluctuating between about 20KB/s and 100KB/s (so, no, I didn't wait the whole hour to see how it worked out). The UCSD mirror gave me 2.89MB/s. Just for kicks, I tried the South Africa mirror, as well. That gave me an average 1.42MB/s (and was over 2MB/s at times). Greece gave me 163KB/s, though it was often higher than that. Richard
