Re: Slow mirror connections

2014-07-07 Thread Berni Elbourn
On 03/07/14 13:46, B wrote: On Thu, 3 Jul 2014 21:31:47 +0900 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: My ISP swears it's not them. Yeah, they always do that until a leak tells otherwise :( Check tcp window scaling:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_window_scale_option off may just fix a

Re: Slow mirror connections

2014-07-03 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Gary Roach gary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: On 07/01/2014 07:07 PM, Donald Norwood wrote: On 07/01/2014 08:45 PM, Gary Roach wrote: [...] The problem never shows up on measurements but only after the download has been going for a bit. It's like someone says

Re: Slow mirror connections

2014-07-03 Thread Bzzzz
On Thu, 3 Jul 2014 21:31:47 +0900 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: My ISP swears it's not them. Yeah, they always do that until a leak tells otherwise :( My impression is that there is a war going on. Check if it is the same when downloading a large pkg from a browser (also check

Re: Slow mirror connections

2014-07-02 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/01/2014 07:07 PM, Donald Norwood wrote: On 07/01/2014 08:45 PM, Gary Roach wrote: I have a Verizon Fios 50 MBs connection but have noticed of late that any significant updates (using Aptitude) start out at about 4-5 mBytes/s and after about 15 - 20% of the files have been transfered

Slow mirror connections

2014-07-01 Thread Gary Roach
I have a Verizon Fios 50 MBs connection but have noticed of late that any significant updates (using Aptitude) start out at about 4-5 mBytes/s and after about 15 - 20% of the files have been transfered the transfer rate drops to about 1/20th of normal speed. Does anyone have any idea why this

Re: Slow mirror connections

2014-07-01 Thread Donald Norwood
On 07/01/2014 08:45 PM, Gary Roach wrote: I have a Verizon Fios 50 MBs connection but have noticed of late that any significant updates (using Aptitude) start out at about 4-5 mBytes/s and after about 15 - 20% of the files have been transfered the transfer rate drops to about 1/20th of normal