Fastly Mirrors Throttled to 1 MB/sec?

[Chris Jones]

On 07/06/2022 3:09 pm, Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2022-6-7 21:43 , Christopher Nielsen wrote:
>>> On 2022-06-06-M, at 13:53, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Try fetching the same file twice in a row. In my experience, the 
>>> first fetch from a cold cache is quite slow, but once the local node 
>>> has the file, it will saturate my connection.
>>
>> I’ve tried that numerous times over the past few months, but the 
>> behavior is extremely consistent: The download speed is tightly 
>> throttled at exactly 1 MB/sec, even after two or three back-to-back 
>> fetches.
> 
> Well, that's clearly not the case for all ISPs and all Fastly POPs. More 
> data is needed to know where the throttling is happening.

Indeed, I for one see no evidence of any throttling

 > wget 
https://packages.macports.org/llvm-13/llvm-13-13.0.1_2.darwin_21.x86_64.tbz2

Gives me 39.3MB/s on my work network, and 8.5MB/s on my home ISP.

Chris - I suspect the issue is more your end, or your ISP, than the 
servers per se.

cheers (another) Chris