Very slow download speeds on 10Gbps server

[Qwerty-Space]

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• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2018.02.22

 ~/pip/bin/pip install -U youtube-dl
Requirement already up-to-date: youtube-dl in ./pip/lib/python3.5/site-packages
[zeus ~] youtube-dl --version
2018.02.03

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Add the -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with (youtube-dl -v <your command line>), copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['-o', '~/private/youtube/%(uploader)s/%(title)s_%(id)s.%(ext)s', '-w', '--audio-quality', '0']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://youtu.be/n9eZ00bRCGA']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.02.03
[debug] Python version 3.5.0 (CPython) - Linux-4.14.11-feral-x86_64-with-debian-8.10
[debug] exe versions: avconv 11.11-6, avprobe 11.11-6, ffmpeg 3.2.4-static, ffprobe 3.2.4-static
[debug] Proxy map: {}
...
<end of log>

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• Single video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
• Single video: https://youtu.be/BaW_jenozKc
• Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lCao7KL_QFVb7Iudeipvc2BCavECqzc

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

When downloading starts off, it shows a high speed, like 50 - 200MB/s, then after a few seconds it drops to a few hundred KB/s. I am running youtube dl on a debian server hosted by Feralhosting. I installed it with pip.

[Qwerty-Space]

Why can't I get the latest version then?

[Hrxn]

Complain to Debian maintainers or install youtube-dl as instructed in Readme.md.

[Qwerty-Space]

@Hrxn I did install it as instructed in the readme

[Hrxn]

But your version is outdated..

[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.02.03

And this is not caused by pip itself. I use the pip package as well...

[Qwerty-Space]

@Hrxn then why won't it update to the latest version with pip?

[Hrxn]

How should we know? Maybe ask you hoster if they are running some local cache or proxy or something..
You can check the package version on the pip website itself, it's the correct one.

[Qwerty-Space]

Strange. If I do pip search youtube-dl it shows the latest version. But any attempt to download that version doesn't work, so maybe there's a problem with it on there.

[Qwerty-Space]

I've tried a whole bunch of things. This is quite strange.

[zeus ~] ~/pip/bin/pip install --upgrade youtube_dl==2018.2.22
Requirement already up-to-date: youtube_dl==2018.2.22 in ./pip/lib/python3.5/site-packages
[zeus ~] ~/pip/bin/pip install --upgrade youtube-dl==2018.2.22
Requirement already up-to-date: youtube-dl==2018.2.22 in ./pip/lib/python3.5/site-packages
[zeus ~] ~/pip/bin/pip install --upgrade youtube-dl
Requirement already up-to-date: youtube-dl in ./pip/lib/python3.5/site-packages
[zeus ~] ~/pip/bin/pip install youtube-dl -U
Requirement already up-to-date: youtube-dl in ./pip/lib/python3.5/site-packages
[zeus ~] youtube-dl --version
2018.02.03
[zeus ~] ~/pip/bin/pip install youtube-dl==2018.2.22
Requirement already satisfied: youtube-dl==2018.2.22 in ./pip/lib/python3.5/site-packages

[Qwerty-Space]

Aaaaaah

[zeus ~] ~/pip/bin/pip install --no-cache-dir youtube-dl==2018.2.22
Collecting youtube-dl==2018.2.22
  Downloading youtube_dl-2018.2.22-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.7MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 1.7MB 15.6MB/s
Installing collected packages: youtube-dl
  Found existing installation: youtube-dl 2018.2.3
    Not uninstalling youtube-dl at /media/sdh1/home/qwertyspace/python/python3/lib/python3.5/site-packages, outside environment /media/sdh1/home/qwertyspace/pip
Successfully installed youtube-dl-2018.2.22
[zeus ~] youtube-dl --version
2018.02.03