Anyone else with awfull download speeds on package install?

LFCavalcanti

Title is the question.

Since yesterday most pfSense boxes I manage are painfully slow to download packages. I searched but didn't found any thread or person reporting the same issue.

doktornotor

So I picked a big one:


$ fetch -v https://files.pfsense.org/packages/10/All/asterisk-1.8.26.1-amd64.pbi
looking up files.pfsense.org
connecting to files.pfsense.org:443
SSL options: 81004bff
Peer verification enabled
Using CA cert file: /usr/local/etc/ssl/cert.pem
Verify hostname
SSL connection established using ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
Certificate subject: /OU=Domain Control Validated/OU=PositiveSSL Wildcard/CN=*.pfsense.org
Certificate issuer: /C=GB/ST=Greater Manchester/L=Salford/O=COMODO CA Limited/CN=COMODO RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA
requesting https://files.pfsense.org/packages/10/All/asterisk-1.8.26.1-amd64.pbi
remote size / mtime: 123351755 / 1398121307
asterisk-1.8.26.1-amd64.pbi                   100% of  117 MB 1701 kBps 01m11s

Pretty much maxes out the downlink; would need to turn off the IPTV STBs to get faster.

LFCavalcanti

@doktornotor:

So I picked a big one:


$ fetch -v https://files.pfsense.org/packages/10/All/asterisk-1.8.26.1-amd64.pbi
looking up files.pfsense.org
connecting to files.pfsense.org:443
SSL options: 81004bff
Peer verification enabled
Using CA cert file: /usr/local/etc/ssl/cert.pem
Verify hostname
SSL connection established using ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
Certificate subject: /OU=Domain Control Validated/OU=PositiveSSL Wildcard/CN=*.pfsense.org
Certificate issuer: /C=GB/ST=Greater Manchester/L=Salford/O=COMODO CA Limited/CN=COMODO RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA
requesting https://files.pfsense.org/packages/10/All/asterisk-1.8.26.1-amd64.pbi
remote size / mtime: 123351755 / 1398121307
asterisk-1.8.26.1-amd64.pbi                   100% of  117 MB 1701 kBps 01m11s

Pretty much maxes out the downlink; would need to turn off the IPTV STBs to get faster.

Strange… maybe a route problem between my region and the servers. Do you know where the ESF servers are located? Austin?

cmb

files.pfsense.org is at NYI's New Jersey datacenter. Generally at least 900 Mbps of bandwidth available at any given time. I'm getting about 7 MB/sec from home in Austin right now via either v4 or v6, with wife watching Netflix and misc other going on.

If your systems are dual stack, it'd be good to try the fetch doktornotor showed once with -4 and once with -6. Also throw in a '-o /dev/null' to take disk performance out of the equation. Like:

fetch -v -4 -o /dev/null https://files.pfsense.org/packages/10/All/asterisk-1.8.26.1-amd64.pbi

Nothing's changed on this end, and there aren't any problems. Guessing something somewhere in between you and NYI. What's a traceroute(6) from you to files.pfsense.org look like?

LFCavalcanti

@cmb:

files.pfsense.org is at NYI's New Jersey datacenter. Generally at least 900 Mbps of bandwidth available at any given time. I'm getting about 7 MB/sec from home in Austin right now via either v4 or v6, with wife watching Netflix and misc other going on.

I was thinking from the start is was some problem between here(São Paulo - Brasil) and our beloved(hated) connection through Level3. I asked just to be sure.

Every time the route goes through Miami I have issues with bandwidth on servers hosted on Austin or anything north of it. Not only on pfSense, Spiceworks for example are there and I get similar problems.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback.