#49452: rsync.macports.org is very slow -----------------------------+--------------------- Reporter: lpancescu@… | Owner: admin@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: server/hosting | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Port: | -----------------------------+--------------------- Comment (by lpancescu@…): The network problem appeared to be solved today at around 9 CET, I got no packet loss from rsync.macports.org and a clean installation ended in 31 minutes, a significant improvement from the 52 minutes. However, I started to get 0.5% packet loss at around 17 CET, which kept increasing in the following hours, reaching 4.2%, like the day before. Now it's almost midnight here, and I see the packet loss dropping again to 0.5% (at this error rate, rsync manages to download at 300KB/s, which is still better than 20KB/s). Central European time is something like 8-9 hours ahead of the West Coast, if I remember correctly - perhaps the packet loss is correlated with the start of the working day in the USA. I also used ping yesterday evening from a friend though another German ISP: while I saw 6% packet loss just minutes earlier via level3.net, at her place it was only 2%, via xo.net (level3.net didn't appear anywhere in the traceroute). This probably also explains why nobody I know here managed to update iOS in the evening - "request timeout". I also see 0.1% packet loss from the Seattle mirror, which doesn't slow things down too much. If packet loss is normal for the main server, I can only see two solutions: 1. Keep using the main server and avoid selfupdate outside of the 9-16 CET time interval 2. Switch to a local mirror, in which case it would be nice to have the option to choose one in the installer (the missing PortIndex makes mirror switching painful, see my comment on bug #49050) -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/49452#comment:8> MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X