[sllug-members]: Gentoo Mirror

[Chad Lake]

Chad wrote:
> Ok, last response from me for a bit, I'm leaving after I type this :D
>
> To see how fast it actually was, I emerged a kernel.  Here's the result:
>
>>>> Downloading 'http://gentoo.cs.utah.edu/distfiles/linux-2.6.17.tar.bz2'
> --20:24:43--  http://gentoo.cs.utah.edu/distfiles/linux-2.6.17.tar.bz2
>           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.6.17.tar.bz2'
> Resolving gentoo.cs.utah.edu... 155.98.64.80
> Connecting to gentoo.cs.utah.edu|155.98.64.80|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 41,272,919 (39M) [application/x-bzip2]
>
> 4% [>                                    ] 1,725,048     57.59K/s    
> ETA 09:34
>
>
> 57.59K/s where typically there I see (from gentoo.org or from
> kernel.org) around 750K/s
>
> I'm running Comcast, so I don't know if that has anything to do with
> it.  Once that emerged finished, I did a wget from kernel.org for
> 2.6.17 and got:
> 771.23K/s
Hmmm,  I've been getting ~150KB/s from home (DSL from Xmission) from 
gentoo.cs.utah.edu, and I got pretty much identical numbers from 
www.kernel.org, mirrors.xmission.com and other distro sites; I don't 
think I'll see better numbers over my DSL line. 

I also tried the similar wget's from shell.xmission.com and got 
sustained around 1.1M/s from gentoo.cs.utah.edu, 1.3M/s from 
gentoo.chem.wisc.edu, 2.2M/s from www.kernel.org and 4.8M/s from 
mirrors.xmission.com.

I also tried downloading from gentoo.cs.utah.edu from another gigabit 
machine at work and got 14M/s :)

I'll try off-site downloads from our box tomorrow during the day- might 
be am issue with our commodity Internet connections from campus or 
something. ??? But yeah, 57K/s sounds low.



             -c





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