Ask HN: Is GitHub throttling downloads?

3 points

8 years ago

I tried downloading the official hugo binary from GitHub for x86 using wget and got an average speed of 50.3KB/s. It's a 6.12M file and took 2m 26s to download to an Ubuntu VPS in Singapore.

I then installed speedtest-cli to the VPS using apt and tested the connection speed with the following results:

Download: 1999.57 Mbit/s Upload: 588.90 Mbit/s

When downloading from GitHub I noticed they're using an S3 bucket to store the release archive:

github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com

Could S3 reduced redundancy be the culprit here? Is there some way I can increase the speed of these downloads?