Apps downloading is pretty slow

[ashfame]

Hi guys,

The repo has been acting slow for me as well. Using a linux box from Linode.

I ran the same command you suggested a few posts earlier:

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wget --debug --output-file=icu.txt http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/11.x/x86_64/tcz/icu65-dev.tcz
I can't make out anything from it: https://pastebin.com/4nrKXum5

[Rich]

Hi ashfame

... I can't make out anything from it: https://pastebin.com/4nrKXum5

From your file:

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     0K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........  0% 42.5K 6m30s
    50K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........  0% 31.5K 7m37s
   100K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........  0% 40.5K 7m19s
   150K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........  1% 18.9K 9m6s
   200K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........  1% 14.6K 11m0s
   250K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........  1% 9.73K 13m48s
   300K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........  2% 12.5K 14m54sColumn 1 indicates how much of the download has completed in 50K byte increments.
Columns 2 through 6 are groups of 10 dots. Each dot represents 1K byte of data downloaded.
Column 7 indicates the percentage of the total file that has been downloaded.
column 8 gives the speed at which that 50K bytes of data was downloaded at in K bytes per second.
               Network speeds can fluctuate for a variety of reasons.
column 9 is an estimate of the time required to complete the download at the current speed.

Going to the end of the file:

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 16500K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99% 29.4K 5s
 16550K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99% 52.4K 2s
 16600K .......... .......... .......... ..........           100% 43.9K=15m7s

2020-08-12 10:17:52 (18.3 KB/s) - 'icu65-dev.tcz' saved [17039360/17039360]Looking at the line that says 100% we find:
Columns 2 through 5 contain 10 dots each and column 6 is blank indicating the last block of data was 40K bytes in size.
Column 9 has a new meaning on this line. It now displays how long it took to download the file, 15m7s.

The last line shows the average download speed of the file, 18.3 K bytes per second.
The "saved [17039360/17039360]" means  [# of bytes saved / file size in bytes].

[Sashank999]

After shutting eth0 down, I got this output attached.

[Rich]

Hi Sashank999
I can only think of one other thing to try. Don't initialize wlan0. Bring up eth0 instead and connect a LAN cable between your machine
and one of the modems LAN ports. See if that gets you any speed.

[ashfame]

Hi Rich,

Thanks a lot for your explanation!
So it took 14m54s to download that single extension, why would it be this slow?

Maybe something at the server to throttle certain connections?

[Sashank999]

Hi Rich,

I am sorry but I can't do that. Mine is a Set-Top-Box(Sorry again if you don't know that) + Modem. It has only one LAN port which is actually used to supply internet to the STB+Modem itself.

So, I think we better go to dependency checking speed now.

[Rich]

Hi ashfame

... So it took 14m54s to download that single extension, ...

No it took 15m7s. I updated this line in my answer to reflect that:

Column 9 has a new meaning on this line. It now displays how long it took to download the file, 15m7s.

[Rich]

Hi Sashank999

... Mine is a Set-Top-Box(Sorry again if you don't know that) + Modem. ...

Do you have a make and model number for that?

[Sashank999]

Yes.

[curaga]

No, shouldn't be anything at the server. I'm getting 1.5Mbps for example. Could be something in between, lots of folks Netflixing. ashfame, you should also pick your closest mirror if you haven't.

[Sashank999]

I think I found the problem. My ISP is actually blocking some servers due to some problems. But those servers are in the routing tables to send the data to the server. Hence I can't access the repo or the forum properly(which I noticed with `traceroute` command). Hence I am now using a VPN. But it is unreliable. I have attached a report of 2 commands output.

Requesting Rich to review and say an alternative.

[Sashank999]

Please help me. The forum loads frustatingly slow. Each page refresh takes > 1 min and posting a new message in forums say that my PHP Session ID is invalid (as it got timed out).

Atleast the repo is with moderate speed.

[Rich]

Hi Sashank999
I don't think there's anything we can do if your ISP is blocking some of your traffic.

[Sashank999]

But there might be some other way, routing traffic to forums through some other servers as this server blocks direct traffic. Do you know how to do it ?

[Rich]

Hi Sashank999
I suppose we could try changing your DNS server. What does this return:

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cat /etc/resolv.conf