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Snapshot downloads always slow - averaging 33kBps

2.1 Snapshot Feedback and Problems - RETIRED
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    sysfu
    last edited by Apr 14, 2013, 9:59 PM

    For whatever reason downloading the latest 2.1 development snapshots from the pfsense console or gui always proceeds at a snails pace. Full speed on the DSL connection would be ~600kBps, instead it's always around 33kBps. Is this by design? Are the downloads being deliberately throttled down that much, or are they hosted via someone's home Internet connection?

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      cmb
      last edited by Apr 14, 2013, 10:08 PM Apr 14, 2013, 10:06 PM

      I wish I had the 50+ Mbps upload speeds we routinely run from that datacenter at home.  :P Though Google Fiber is coming to Austin soon.

      They're hosted from NYI.net's datacenter with a gigabit pipe to their 100+ Gbps network, with 0 throttling. One I just grabbed maxed out my ~20 Mbps DSL.

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        sysfu
        last edited by Apr 14, 2013, 10:57 PM Apr 14, 2013, 10:24 PM

        Weird. I'm downloading from http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD_RELENG_8_3/i386/pfSense_HEAD/.updaters/latest-nanobsd-2g.img.gz. If I download via the web browser on my desktop computer I get speeds of ~510KBps. Must have something to do with the Alix/pfsense setup then.

        update: So I downloaded latest-nanobsd-2g.img.gz to my desktop in about two minutes and then began copying the the file over to the pfsense/alix box using scp. Those transfer speeds are averaging ~75KBps.

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          cmb
          last edited by Apr 14, 2013, 10:57 PM

          Oh the big difference there is when you're downloading from the ALIX, you're saving it to CF. CF is very, very slow.

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            sysfu
            last edited by Apr 14, 2013, 11:00 PM

            @cmb:

            Oh the big difference there is when you're downloading from the ALIX, you're saving it to CF. CF is very, very slow.

            Indeed it is.

            I was able to cut the total firmware download and transfer time in half by using the two step desktop web browser then scp to alix method.

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