On 08.01.19 14:24, Mihai Popescu wrote: > Hi, > > I use to retrieve my install sets from a mirror, after I start the > install procedure with minirootxx.fs > > Since the mirrors in my country are updating late and they have some > problems in doing it right, I used ftp.hostserver.de. The download was > working fine, something around 3MBps. This mirror started few days ago > to provide me only with 64KBps constantly, no matter if i do http or > https. > > I tried cdn.openbsd.org too, the download is super fast for me, like > 30MBps. Still, sometimes it drops to 64KBps too, and stays there. I've > read some articles about CDN networks, but I am not able to see the > big picture. > > So, I still have two questions about mirrors: > Can a mirror limit your download speed ? > Do a CDN url point to an existing mirror, or is it a diffeent server? > > Thank you.
I can confirm Mihai's observation: http://ftp.hostserver.de is remarkable slow for 2~3 weeks, even from within Frankfurt. From memory I'd say from around the week before xmas download rates dropped to 20kb/s what usually was ~2mb/s. The Austrian mirror gave me this morning ~4mb/s! I fetch like so: export SERVER=http://ftp2.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots export ARCH=amd64 export VERSION=64wget -4 --no-proxy --no-cache --no-cookies --backups=2 \ $SERVER/$ARCH/BOOT{IA32,X64}.EFI \ $SERVER/$ARCH/INSTALL.$ARCH \ $SERVER/$ARCH/BUILDINFO \ $SERVER/$ARCH/index.txt \ $SERVER/$ARCH/SHA256{,.sig} \ $SERVER/$ARCH/bsd{,.mp,.rd} \ $SERVER/$ARCH/{base,comp,man}$VERSION.tgz \ $SERVER/$ARCH/x{base,font,serv,share}$VERSION.tgz
