[U-Boot] [ANN] git server, FTP server

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Bin,

In message <CAEUhbmUYatxaYtbBAaKWrxNopaNfxJiXchw-3Y_NP1FxZ9RWjw at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> >> I just downloaded several tarballs from ACD. Looks the download speed
> >> is OK for me (average 200KB/s).
> >
> > Ouch, that's awfully slow.  Are you sure the bottleneck is on the ACD
> > side?  How fast is your link usually?
> 
> I have a 15Mbps bandwidth link to the internet. Is the ACD supposed to
> choose wherever the nearest download site to the downloader for better
> speed?

Yes.

Hm, other prople have reported (ok - for bigger files, say 4+ GiB)
download rates of 11 MiB/s (MegaBYTES per second) on a 100 Mbps
fibre link, which is close to the theoretical limit there.  So you
should get better rates, I think.

> The reason that I felt it is OK for me, is that for the
> original ftp.denx.de I could only get average 30KB/s when loading a
> tarball. Thus I am thankful for the new ACD :)

I'm glad if it helps, even though I can't explain why you don't get
the full bandwidth.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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