Retropie slow download updates for today?

KN4THX

Maybe you just had some bad luck or some home network hiccups. For everything I have on mine, it went as expected, if not faster now that I have a 3B+.

RedBatman

@thedatacereal well this happened to me before in the past. Not that often but when it did I thought it was my Linux mirror something. Do you download from the US or you in the UK.

RedBatman

Still happening today. Anyone here know how to do mirror checks or change the mirror download server since some of the sites I have gone to haven't been all that helpful

mitu

@redbatman What operations is slow ? The Raspbian packages download or the RetroPie packages download ?

RedBatman

@mitu retropie packages.

mitu

@redbatman I tried a full update and I got a slow download too, on the 1st package (avmame)

wget https://files.retropie.org.uk/binaries/stretch/rpi3/emulators/advmame.tar.gz
--2018-05-14 19:20:21--  https://files.retropie.org.uk/binaries/stretch/rpi3/emulators/advmame.tar.gz
Resolving files.retropie.org.uk (files.retropie.org.uk)... 2a00:1098:0:80:1000:57:0:1, 93.93.129.253
Connecting to files.retropie.org.uk (files.retropie.org.uk)|2a00:1098:0:80:1000:57:0:1|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 20653883 (20M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: 'advmame.tar.gz'

advmame.tar.gz                             4%[==>                                                                                ] 807.75K  38.3KB/s

Strangely, using IPv4 the speed is what I call normal

wget -4 https://files.retropie.org.uk/binaries/stretch/rpi3/emulators/advmame.tar.gz
--2018-05-14 19:21:02--  https://files.retropie.org.uk/binaries/stretch/rpi3/emulators/advmame.tar.gz
Resolving files.retropie.org.uk (files.retropie.org.uk)... 93.93.129.253
Connecting to files.retropie.org.uk (files.retropie.org.uk)|93.93.129.253|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 20653883 (20M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: 'advmame.tar.gz.1'

advmame.tar.gz.1                       100%[===========================================================================>]  19.70M  1.61MB/s    in 11s

Can you retry a simple download, forcing it over IPv4 ?

RedBatman

@mitu Unfortunately I don't know how to force over IPV4

mitu

@redbatman Just run the commands above

# Should try IPv6 if available
wget https://files.retropie.org.uk/binaries/stretch/rpi3/emulators/advmame.tar.gz

# Should download over IPv4
wget -4 https://files.retropie.org.uk/binaries/stretch/rpi3/emulators/advmame.tar.gz

RedBatman

@mitu Okay I will try this later. Right now last week of college and gotta study. Gonna be a long week.

RedBatman

@mitu Hey I wanted you to know that when I checked for updates earlier today it went smoothly.