[PLUG] New Indian ubuntu mirror

[Vivek J. Patankar]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 4:07 AM, Vishal Rao <vishalrao at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There was a recent post to the ubuntu-in mailing list about a new upcoming
> Indian mirror, see https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-in/2017-June/
> 011694.html
>
> Anyone with a fast (100+ mbps) wired connection that can try it and
> comment?
>
> Regards,
> Vishal
>
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Quick and dirty test: 122MB sample file from the mirror

Location: Pune

ISP: Hathway FTTH ; advertised speed 150Mbps
Speedtest.net result at the present time: ping 15 ms, download 134.95 Mbps,
upload 88.73 Mbps


Test1: Using wget, single stream. Result: 18.48 Mbps (2.31 MB/s)

[vivek at hachi Desktop]$ wget
http://mirrors.piconets.webwerks.in/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox-dbg_37.0+build2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
--2017-06-27 12:16:20--
http://mirrors.piconets.webwerks.in/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox-dbg_37.0+build2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
Resolving mirrors.piconets.webwerks.in (mirrors.piconets.webwerks.in)...
43.240.66.200
Connecting to mirrors.piconets.webwerks.in
(mirrors.piconets.webwerks.in)|43.240.66.200|:80...
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 127412954 (122M) [application/x-debian-package]
Saving to: ‘firefox-dbg_37.0+build2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb’

firefox-dbg_37.0+build2- 100%[===============================>] 121.51M
 2.31MB/s    in 83s

2017-06-27 12:17:44 (1.46 MB/s) -
‘firefox-dbg_37.0+build2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb’ saved [127412954/127412954]

[vivek at hachi Desktop]$



Test2: Using axel, 10 section multi-stream. Result: 34.50 Mbps (4416.63
KB/s)

[vivek at hachi Desktop]$ axel -n 10 -a
http://mirrors.piconets.webwerks.in/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox-dbg_37.0+build2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
Initializing download:
http://mirrors.piconets.webwerks.in/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox-dbg_37.0+build2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
File size: 127412954 bytes
Opening output file firefox-dbg_37.0+build2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
Starting download

Connection 4 finished
   ]
Connection 6 finished
   ]
Connection 5 finished
   ]
Connection 3 finished
   ]
Connection 1 finished
   ]
Connection 9 finished
   ]
Connection 0 finished
   ]
Connection 8 finished
   ]
Connection 2 finished
   ]
[100%] [..................................................] [   4.3MB/s]
[00:00]

Downloaded 121.5 Megabyte in 28 seconds. (4416.63 KB/s)
[vivek at hachi Desktop]$


tx;br
Vivek.
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