Hello Christopher, > raid5atemyhomework via Bug reports for GNU Guix bug-guix@gnu.org writes: > > > Downloading substitutes from ci.guix.gnu.org is slow from my two Guix-using computers. > > One is a pure Guix System install without any channels, the other one is a foreign Guix install with the-channel-that-cannot-be-named. > > > > downloading from https://ci.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/1bdldr80p39g1mjnh76xw6hmwqrrb8lz-wine64-6.0 ... > > wine64-6.0 54.4MiB 10KiB/s 01:55 [ ] 2.1% > > > > If you try this same download again, do you get the same speed? > > guix publish, which is used on ci.guix.gnu.org can dynamically create > nars if they're not cached, which will probably result in slower > download speeds. Yes, I have been suffering slow download speeds for a few weeks now. Even with repeated downloads, it is consistently slow. I only just now tried out using `torify wget`, which surprised me since it was much much faster --- one lucky download even got up to 6MB/s over frikking TOR before I ^Ced it. I've even tried doing `torify wget` and `wget` in parallel on two separate shells --- the `torify wget` was definitely faster, getting anywhere from 100kB/s to 700kB/s with a few outliers at >1MB/s, while `wget` was consistently below 40kB/s and eventually settling to ~11kB/s after a few seconds. This holds even for packages I expect to be popular and thus likely to be in-cache with high probability, like `linux-libre`. Thanks raid5atemyhomework