My internet connection emerges from a router in Sydney. Package installations today are being sourced from the host pkg0.syd.freebsd.org (103.2.119.197) and they have been running at about 50 Kilobytes/sec for some weeks now. I'm pretty used to slow Internet, but other parts of FreeBSD downloads (e.g. the provides database) run at pretty much wire speed (700 to 800 Kilobytes per second for me). Linux package updates also happen at wire speed.
Does anyone know why pkg0.syd.freebsd.org might be so slow?
Does anyone know why pkg0.syd.freebsd.org might be so slow?