fetching sources from sourceforge takes very long time

[Alexander Ulitin]

Alexander, no any problems downloading  from browser. 50MB file - 1 minute.

2011/5/11 Alexander Skwar <alexanders.mailinglists+nospam at gmail.com>:
> Alexander,
> do you also experience slow downloads, when you download
> from Source Forge using a normal browser (Chrome, Firefox or
> whatnot)? Eg. this 50MB file:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxpaint/files/tuxpaint/0.9.21/tuxpaint_0.9.21-1maemo8_i386.deb/download
> (It's just a random largish file that I came accross.)
> Regards,
> Alexander
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 23:14, Alexander Ulitin <mail at liworks.ru> wrote:
>>
>> Hello! Need your help.
>> I need to install some ports(ex.tomcat6), that are dependent on a
>> number of other ports (ex. junit,
>> mx4j). Ping results in port -d for citylan.dl.sourceforge.net is the
>> smallest - 20ms, so macports downloads sourcefile from that server and
>> fetching takes a lot of time, speed is near 0, sometimes it is raised
>> to 1000, but then it becomes 0 and I cant install apps from ports.
>> 1.5MB archive is downloading for hours and if I try to download file
>> using the browser from sourceforge it takes less than a second (stable
>> 15mbit/s channel). And sometimes it works just fine (20 minutes of
>> waiting 0% and then 20 ports are installed successfully within a
>> minute and again waiting 0%(or other value ex. 58%) with sourceforge).
>>
>> What's the reason of such behaviour of macports and sourceforge? How
>> can I force it to work? I've tried to locally bind citylan.dl host to
>> nonexistent address, but the problem repeats with other sourceforge
>> server.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
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