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Re: Download speeds for nightly builds seem a bit slow to a lot of people over at the forum

 

Thanks.  If we are having issues with the CERN download speeds (although
it is not entirely evident that is the issue) it would be good to have
alternate mirrors for users to try if they are having issues with the
main download server.

On 3/9/2019 11:27 AM, Mark Roszko wrote:
> I believe Nick was in talks with them, I shall poke him.
> 
> On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 11:08 AM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     A third party has expressed interest in providing download mirrors for
>     KiCad.  What would it take on our end to make this happen other than
>     providing the mirror links on the KiCad website?
> 
>     Wayne
> 
>     On 3/9/2019 10:56 AM, Clemens Koller wrote:
>     > On 09/03/2019 14.27, Rene Pöschl wrote:
>     >> It might help if you could state where on this planet you are. The
>     >> problem seems to either be location or time dependent.
>     >
>     > Germany, Munich.
>     > Regardless of that, the problem is likely not server-side.
>     >
>     > Clemens
>     >
>     > On 09/03/2019 14.27, Rene Pöschl wrote:
>     >> It might help if you could state where on this planet you are. The
>     >> problem seems to either be location or time dependent.
>     >>
>     >> On 09/03/19 14:21, Clemens Koller wrote:
>     >>> I cannot confirm such a slow download.
>     >>> I get 23MBytes/s speed from https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch
>     which is the max I can get here.
>     >>>
>     >>> Regards,
>     >>>
>     >>> Clemens
>     >>>
>     >>> On 09/03/2019 12.38, Rene Pöschl wrote:
>     >>>> Hi,
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>> it seems that some of our users struggle to download nightly
>     builds for
>     >>>> windows from the cern servers right now.
>     >>>>
>     >>>> Is this an expected sideeffect of the server move or is there
>     currently
>     >>>> a problem?
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>> The original report was made over here:
>     >>>> https://forum.kicad.info/t/window-nightlies-download-speed/15633/
>     >>>>
>     >>>> Some of the guys report download speeds in the low kB/s range
>     and even
>     >>>> experience total download failures. (It might be noteworthy
>     that all the
>     >>>> guys reporting problems are outside of europe.)
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
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