Subject: bug#46942: ci.guix.gnu.org is slow from my system

From: zimoun <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2021 13:41:00 +0100

Hi,

On Fri, 05 Mar 2021 at 11:22, raid5atemyhomework via Bug reports for GNU Guix <[email-masked]> wrote:

> This can be very slow, including as slow as 4KiB/s at times.

[...]

> The problem is not on my ISP, or at least not solely on my ISP. Doing a `wget` from `github.com`:

[...]

> As can be seen above, I get 9.34MB/s elsewhere, which is better than the >60Mbit/s promised by my ISP.

Where are you located?  I mean, ci.guix.gnu.org is in Berlin, so if you
are far, say in Alaska or in Puerto Williams[*], you get a poor
downloading rate.  However, github.com probably uses CDN or something
like that, so obviously the rate becomes much better.

*Puerto Williams, the World Southest town with an Internet
 connection. :-)

All the best,
simon