bug#46942: ci.guix.gnu.org is slow from my system

[Leo Famulari]

Right, I meant that the required information would likely make it
possible to determine this person's location. Or at least make a good
guess.

On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 04:53:33PM -0500, Julien Lepiller wrote:
> Actually, location usually has nothing to do with it (unless someone dug a 
> hole right in the middle of optic fibers, but you'd notice). The most 
> important info is AS (basically, which ISP you're using, but some have more 
> than one AS). We don't need your IP, but ISP might be already too revealing 
> for your taste.
> 
> Le 5 mars 2021 14:40:10 GMT-05:00, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> a écrit :
> >On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 11:22:17AM +0000, raid5atemyhomework via Bug
> >reports for GNU Guix wrote:
> >> 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%
> >> ```
> >
> >Sometimes we get reports like this, of strangely slow downloads from
> >ci.guix.gnu.org. They don't seem to depend on geography. They sometimes
> >happen to people who usually download quickly from ci.guix.gnu.org. So
> >far, we don't have any idea why they happen. But, it's not just you.
> >
> >You are the first person to file a detailed bug report about it, if I
> >remember correctly (if!). If you'd like to help debug it, let us know,
> >but it would probably mean identifying your IP / location.