super slow download from arduino ide board manager

[ThomasWaldmann]

Does your server have a performance or other problem?

I am currently downloading the esp32 boards support from arduino ide's "boards manager" at about 20kB/s. Sometimes it is even much slower than that.

Last try, it aborted after downloading half of the 69.248kB package and the whole procedure is taking hours already, which is rather annoying.

I have a 250Mbit/s connection here and a speed test shows ok speed for my connection, so it seems to be either the server or the connection to it in the internet.

Debian Linux "stretch", Arduino IDE 1.8.10 64bit.

[ThomasWaldmann]

https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/releases/download/1.0.4/esp32-1.0.4.zip

This is from the console log. So, is github slow or throttling connections?

[lbernstone]

How exactly would you like this issue resolved?

[ThomasWaldmann]

Does it matter? If it is resolved at all, I'm fine.

[WereCatf]

Does your server have a performance or other problem?

Github is not run by Espressif, it's not "their server." Github is owned by Microsoft.

I have a 250Mbit/s connection here and a speed test shows ok speed for my connection, so it seems to be either the server or the connection to it in the internet.

And on the other hand, I just tested it and I got 9.78MBps, or 78.24Mbps.

The issue could very well be e.g. a routing-problem at your ISP or somewhere between your ISP and Github, for example. It's not necessarily anything to do with Github itself.

[ThomasWaldmann]

I can test it monday from another ISP to see if it can be reproduced.

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[ThomasWaldmann]

Hmm, still need to test it again. If somebody else gets to it before me, feel free.

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[fusionstream]

Obviously this is not espressif's problem but thought I'd chime in here that I'm having the same issue. Unbelievably slow. Visiting the sites is fine. Tried downloading the release directly via a download manager and that too is incredibly slow. Slower in fact. 3.4KBps is the peak and it's constantly cutting out. Each request to add a new chunk is replied with a 403.