Re: Do substitutes download slowly for you? / Speeding up substitute delivery/mirrors

[Efraim Flashner]

On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 02:52:24PM +0100, Christopher Baines wrote:
> Hey!
> 
> I was reminded again about substitute download speeds outside of Europe
> again today.

It looks like I'm a bit later than most of the other responses.

> Once again it would be good to gather some data on this, so here are
> some test commands. I'm interested to see how France compares with
> either the US or Singapore depending on your location. If you think that
> none of these locations serve you well, then please say that plus give
> some indication of what download speeds you see for things that download
> quickly.
> 
> France:    wget 
> https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/078vr3r8mn3yrwzwxw64hmcyshic9p3q-stellarium-0.21.0

(ins)efraim@3900XT /tmp$ wget 
https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/078vr3r8mn3yrwzwxw64hmcyshic9p3q-stellarium-0.21.0
 -O stellarium-france
--2023-05-29 14:54:04--  
https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/078vr3r8mn3yrwzwxw64hmcyshic9p3q-stellarium-0.21.0
Resolving bordeaux.guix.gnu.org (bordeaux.guix.gnu.org)... 185.233.100.56, 
2a0c:e300::58
Connecting to bordeaux.guix.gnu.org 
(bordeaux.guix.gnu.org)|185.233.100.56|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 208615205 (199M) [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘stellarium-france’

stellarium-france             
100%[================================================>] 198.95M  12.2MB/s    in 
17s

2023-05-29 14:54:21 (11.8 MB/s) - ‘stellarium-france’ saved 
[208615205/208615205]

> US:        wget 
> https://bordeaux-us-east-mirror.cbaines.net/nar/lzip/078vr3r8mn3yrwzwxw64hmcyshic9p3q-stellarium-0.21.0

(ins)efraim@3900XT /tmp$ wget 
https://bordeaux-us-east-mirror.cbaines.net/nar/lzip/078vr3r8mn3yrwzwxw64hmcyshic9p3q-stellarium-0.21.0
 -O stellarium-US
--2023-05-29 14:55:02--  
https://bordeaux-us-east-mirror.cbaines.net/nar/lzip/078vr3r8mn3yrwzwxw64hmcyshic9p3q-stellarium-0.21.0
Resolving bordeaux-us-east-mirror.cbaines.net 
(bordeaux-us-east-mirror.cbaines.net)... 5.161.49.48
Connecting to bordeaux-us-east-mirror.cbaines.net 
(bordeaux-us-east-mirror.cbaines.net)|5.161.49.48|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 208615205 (199M) [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘stellarium-US’

stellarium-US                 
100%[================================================>] 198.95M  12.2MB/s    in 
17s

2023-05-29 14:55:20 (11.5 MB/s) - ‘stellarium-US’ saved [208615205/208615205]

> Singapore: wget 
> https://bordeaux-singapore-mirror.cbaines.net/nar/lzip/078vr3r8mn3yrwzwxw64hmcyshic9p3q-stellarium-0.21.0

(ins)efraim@3900XT /tmp$ wget 
https://bordeaux-singapore-mirror.cbaines.net/nar/lzip/078vr3r8mn3yrwzwxw64hmcyshic9p3q-stellarium-0.21.0
 -O stellarium-singapore
--2023-05-29 14:56:29--  
https://bordeaux-singapore-mirror.cbaines.net/nar/lzip/078vr3r8mn3yrwzwxw64hmcyshic9p3q-stellarium-0.21.0
Resolving bordeaux-singapore-mirror.cbaines.net 
(bordeaux-singapore-mirror.cbaines.net)... 64.176.80.78, 
2401:c080:1400:71df:5400:4ff:fe73:757d
Connecting to bordeaux-singapore-mirror.cbaines.net 
(bordeaux-singapore-mirror.cbaines.net)|64.176.80.78|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 208615205 (199M) [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘stellarium-singapore’

stellarium-singapore          
100%[================================================>] 198.95M  10.8MB/s    in 
19s

2023-05-29 14:56:50 (10.2 MB/s) - ‘stellarium-singapore’ saved 
[208615205/208615205]

> So please share the output from wget and if you're comfortable doing so,
> the rough real world location of where the computer doing the
> downloading is.

I'm in Israel, paying for a 100/2 connection. I'm surprised the
download from Singapore went so quickly, I would've expected that to be
slower. Unless things have changed our internet travels to us by way of
Greece and Cyprus.

As an aside, a few years ago we tried out using Amazon as a CDN, and
IIRC I figured I was likely the only user in Israel with ~15GB/month
draw.


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