FWIW on a first download I got 1.37MB/s over det-ix (packages.macports.org is .3ms away) and my home connection got 981KB/s (to a faslty server 6.8ms away, so probably in chicago - my home ISP breaks traceroute so it's a little harder to see what's happening).
... on a second download I got ~100MB/s (or just about the max of what my gige connection can do) from both locations.\ is the origin server bandwidth constrained? > On Jun 8, 2022, at 11:53 AM, Chris Jones <jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > On 07/06/2022 3:09 pm, Joshua Root wrote: >> On 2022-6-7 21:43 , Christopher Nielsen wrote: >>>> On 2022-06-06-M, at 13:53, Joshua Root <j...@macports.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> Try fetching the same file twice in a row. In my experience, the first >>>> fetch from a cold cache is quite slow, but once the local node has the >>>> file, it will saturate my connection. >>> >>> I’ve tried that numerous times over the past few months, but the behavior >>> is extremely consistent: The download speed is tightly throttled at exactly >>> 1 MB/sec, even after two or three back-to-back fetches. >> Well, that's clearly not the case for all ISPs and all Fastly POPs. More >> data is needed to know where the throttling is happening. > > Indeed, I for one see no evidence of any throttling > > > wget > > https://packages.macports.org/llvm-13/llvm-13-13.0.1_2.darwin_21.x86_64.tbz2 > > Gives me 39.3MB/s on my work network, and 8.5MB/s on my home ISP. > > Chris - I suspect the issue is more your end, or your ISP, than the servers > per se. > > cheers (another) Chris -- Daniel J. Luke
