HELLLLL NAAWWWWW this is some bullshit.... I caught my #ISP throttling the connection to the FRICKING #FREEBSD PKG SERVER!
For real, speeds were like 8.3kbps in a fiber connection. And then I confirmed the BS by adding a VPN on top and running pkg upgrade again. Boom, back to 1~2Mbps again. Caught 'em Red. fucking. handed.
Why even do this shit? For real. It's just fucking HTTP!
Or VPN uses a public IP from a other region and therefore different pkg hosts in another country? E.g. if DNS resolves you are in Europe you get a European pkg host, if VPN tunnels to the US and DNS identifies your public IP as US then you get a US pkg host afaik.
@kzimmermann it is possible you just had a bad route. Using the VPN got you around it. Rather like if you're stuck in traffic, there is an accident ahead. Go one street over and bypass the slow spot, you get there sooner.
@valpackett situation seems to have worked out a little better now, but still traceroute shows some slowing down at a node that seems to be owned by my ISP (45ms ping instead of 2-5ms on other hops). Huh. Not sure if I can alter such thing from my end?
@FiLiS yes, I am sure. I used the same mirror without (8kbps max) and then with (2Mbps avg) a VPN. Nothing else changed. And even without VPN I tested by opening YouTube for a minute and the loading speeds seemed normal (that is, no significant latency). They unapologetically decided to throttle the connection.
Add comment