Snapshot downloads always slow - averaging 33kBps
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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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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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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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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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@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.