[Interest] Poor mirror performance for the online Qt SDK

[Yang Fan]

I'm living in China, the truth is I always find that the online installer
is very slow and I always use offline installer, seemly most time wget
could pick the fast mirror.
And I find some mirrors don't support continue from previous interruption,
maybe that's why the online installer doesn't support resume downloading.


On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Sadika Sumanapala <sadikahs at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have the same problem (I'm in Sri Lanka). yesterday i tried to download
> 4 times. It is very slow. And the worst thing is online installer missing
> resume capability. If connection drops for whatever reason it starts to
> download from beginning.
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 6:38 AM, Brett (Gmail) <brettbibby at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Yes, for me too in Southeast Asia it always chooses China which due to
>> the national firewall is super slow always. The logic should be to only
>> choose China mirrors from within China, otherwise ignore it.
>>
>> On Dec 20, 2013, at 7:54 AM, Vadim Peretokin <vperetokin at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> You aren't the only one. I get the same Chinese mirror in Australia and
>> it is terrible. It taught me that wget has a default retry limit of 20
>> times!
>>
>> The online installer and the browser download are not useable in
>> Australia, even on a fibre connection. Download the offline installer and
>> either use wget with infinite retries (it'll keep picking up where it left
>> from, thankfully), or click on the "info" link on the Qt website to
>> download from a different mirror, or use aria2c<http://aria2.sourceforge.net/>which can download from many mirrors at once and will download it in a
>> reasonable time.
>>
>> I've already written to the Contact form on the Qt project on the website
>> about this, but I have not had any reply yet.
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Fan Yang
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