Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 22:37:17 +0200 From: hw <hw@adminart.net> To: Antranig Vartanian <antranigv@freebsd.am> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: for how long can I expect the update servers to be slow? Message-ID: <874l33xnr6.fsf@toy.adminart.net> In-Reply-To: <D942B0F4-FEDD-41E2-A353-ED2D813DB5BB@freebsd.am> (Antranig Vartanian's message of "Tue, 30 Jul 2019 02:29:35 %2B0400") References: <875znkcxlo.fsf@toy.adminart.net> <D942B0F4-FEDD-41E2-A353-ED2D813DB5BB@freebsd.am>
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Antranig Vartanian <antranigv@freebsd.am> writes: > Hi! > > Usually the package servers are far from my side of the world (Armenia) b= ut even during upgrade releases I never got such slow downloads. > > Is it possible that there is a bottleneck between your host and the serve= rs=E2=80=99 network? Where is your host located? right I've tried it at work today and got acceptable download speeds around 1.5--2.1Mbit while installing packages to set up an xrdp server. /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf indicates that pkg.FreeBSD.org is being used. When pinging that server, it resolves to pkgmir.geo.FreeBSD.org (96.47.72.71). Ping times are around 125ms from here. This server seems to be located in New York --- in which case "only" 125ms is pretty good. Pinging it at work shows an awesome 91ms. (Ping times to the US are usually around 180--210ms with the traffic apparently being held up in Frankfurt. Perhaps that's where the spies are located ...) This might indicate that the problem is with my ISP. Is there another server I could use? Or can I reasonably mirror the whole server and perhaps use something like rsync to get updates? I don't mind downloading stuff for days while I'm not waiting on it.
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