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. -- Efraim Flashner רנשלפ םירפא GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted