Downloading boxes from atlas.hashicorp.com is very slow

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Frank Patz-Brockmann

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Dec 17, 2014, 5:43:45 PM12/17/14
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After month I've returned to using vagrant and find downloading base boxes like hashicorp/precise32 extremely slow.
It literally takes hours, where it took just minutes a while ago. I am sure it's not my internet connection, other downloads
work as expected. Is there some bandwidth throttling at work? Waiting hours makes "Getting Started" really hard ...

Mitchell Hashimoto

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Dec 17, 2014, 5:45:15 PM12/17/14
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Frank,

The location of these boxes hasn't changed in nearly a year. I'd say
that this is probably just due to transient issues.

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Mitchell
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Alvaro Miranda Aguilera

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Dec 17, 2014, 6:06:32 PM12/17/14
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On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Frank Patz-Brockmann <frank...@gmail.com> wrote:
hashicorp/precise32

From usa:

--2014-12-17 14:58:34--  https://vagrantcloud.com/hashicorp/boxes/precise32/versions/1.0.0/providers/virtualbox.box                                
Resolving vagrantcloud.com... 54.236.231.217, 54.84.71.203                                                                                         
Connecting to vagrantcloud.com|54.236.231.217|:443... connected.                                                                                   
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found                                                                                                  
Location: http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box [following]                                                                                     
--2014-12-17 14:58:35--  http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box                                                                                  
Resolving files.vagrantup.com... 54.243.104.175                                                                                                    
Connecting to files.vagrantup.com|54.243.104.175|:80... connected.                                                                                 
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found                                                                                                  
Location: http://hashicorp-files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box [following]                                                                           
--2014-12-17 14:58:35--  http://hashicorp-files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box                                                                        
Resolving hashicorp-files.vagrantup.com... 107.170.61.177                                                                                          
Connecting to hashicorp-files.vagrantup.com|107.170.61.177|:80... connected.                                                                       
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK                                                                                                     
Length: 295255040 (282M) [text/plain]                                                                                                              
Saving to: 'virtualbox.box'                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                   
33% [==================================>                                                                       ] 97,820,672  5.57MB/s  eta 45s     
                                                                                                                                
couple of minutes later:
                   
2014-12-17 14:59:40 (4.36 MB/s) - 'virtualbox.box' saved [295255040/295255040]                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Frank Patz-Brockmann

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Dec 18, 2014, 7:30:22 AM12/18/14
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Hi Mitchell and Alvaro,
thanks for caring! A new day brought improvement, I am now down to 10 minutes from the 5 hours ETA
I persistently got yesterday. 
All the best and a happy holiday season,
    - frank

Christopher Carr

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Dec 3, 2017, 1:23:20 AM12/3/17
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This seems to still be a frequent problem 3 years later. I'm not getting over 200Kb/s downloading https://vagrantcloud.com/ubuntu/boxes/trusty64/versions/20171128.0.0/providers/virtualbox.box

Run into a bandwidth limit and being throttled, or something? Shouldn't have to wait 90+ minutes after 'vagrant up'.

Alvaro Miranda Aguilera

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Dec 3, 2017, 6:38:07 AM12/3/17
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Hello

that box is externally hosted, so you should contact canonical. Is not hosted in vagrant cloud/hashicorp

the box is a redirect from:


virtualbox Externally hosted (cloud-images.ubuntu.com)




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Christopher Carr

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Dec 3, 2017, 9:45:05 AM12/3/17
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Ah, OK. Thanks. 

I shall redirect my complaints. 
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