fetching sources from sourceforge takes very long time

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> I do not know why you see low ping times to a server but then slow transfer
> speeds from it. That would be a question for your network administrator.

Just as a quickie, your ISP might throttle your bandwidth as a
function of time. You might actually have a very large connection pipe
-- maybe you have a 3 Mbps connection. But if you are only paying for
a 768 Kbps connection, then you'll get a few packets at high speed,
followed by many packets at low speed.

Now, that could be happening at any link between you and the target site.
Most likely places are either you, immediately upstream of you, or at
the far end.

Try doing a traceroute between two sites -- that one and one of the others.
See if the first few hops from you out are the same, or if it differs
after only one or two hops.

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