[PLUG] How to select best openSUSE Tumbleweed mirror?

[Vishal Rao]

I should add that zypper doesn't appear to have capability to pull with
multiple connections.

For my Ubuntu based distros there is this apt-fast tool on github which
helps by using multiple connections with apt.

On Thu, 24 Jun 2021, 7:51 am Vishal Rao, <vishalrao at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Amey,
>
> On Wed, 23 Jun 2021, 7:51 pm Amey Abhyankar, <sco1984 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 at 12:15, Amey Abhyankar <sco1984 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 at 11:31, Vishal Rao <vishalrao at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello!
>>>>
>>>> I'm running openSUSE Tumbleweed and facing slow download speeds with
>>>> the default server (download.opensuse.org) on my BSNL fiber
>>>> connection. My plan speed is 300 mbps but I get only around 20-40 mbps
>>>> range while doing zypper updates.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Maybe the remote server has limited throughput restriction per session.
>>>
>>
>> Can you try the Taiwan mirror i.e. Yuan Ze university from the list? =
>> https://mirrors.opensuse.org/
>> I remember, earlier most mirrors had mention of total available bandwidth
>> i.e. 10mbps, 100mbps, 1gbps etc.
>> I don't see that column on this page.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Reading the openSUSE wiki they say if you use the download.opensuse.org
>>>> URL it will auto select nearest/fastest mirror using MirrorBrain but doing
>>>> a nslookup with different DNS servers seems to return the SUSE owned server
>>>> in Germany.
>>>>
>>>> I manually tried setting mirrors in Yast config including India (ESTO
>>>> internet servers) but all mirrors I tried seem to be missing the "updates"
>>>> repo.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions? Does anyone else here use Tumbleweed and facing this
>>>> issue?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Vishal Rao
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> "The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." -
>>>> St. Augustine.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Amey.
>>>
>>
>
> Yep tried various mirrors to no effect.
>
> I noticed many if not all mirrors don't have the updates/tumbleweed
> subfolder so anyway it has to pull from the main server in Germany.
>
> On top of that I see that my connection is slow to servers outside India
> if using a single thread/connection but if I use multiple connections to
> download say the ISO then I get full speed so my ISP's link is not helping.
>
> Indian mirrors are fast for me but like I said the updates folder is not
> available.
>
> Anyhoo thanks for the response.
>
>>
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