Hi,
I've been trying unsuccessfully for last two days to download latest stable windows release from Github. Github seems to be throttling downloads larger than few meg to few KB/s. After an hour or so downloads drop as probably CDN github uses on the backend ticket expires. I've been searching everywhere for a working mirror, or a torrent link, but there seems to be nothing there. It is kind of ironic it is easier to find a working download of all kinds of cracked paid software than an OS project
Could someone please send me a download link for the 64 bit windows install downloadable from somewhere else than github?
Impossible to download FreeCAD binaries from GitHub
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Re: Impossible to download FreeCAD binaries from GitHub
Yea, this is becoming a PITA with github.
Do you mind using bittorrent?
https://fosstorrents.com/softwares/cad/freecad/
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https://fosstorrents.com/softwares/cad/freecad/
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Re: Impossible to download FreeCAD binaries from GitHub
Same here. github announced 6 hours and after one or two it completely broke. The torrent announces 25 minutes...
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How many seeders on the torrent ?
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One. It took about that time...
Re: Impossible to download FreeCAD binaries from GitHub
Maybe it could be mentioned as an alternative download location in the 0.19_pre download page?
Re: Impossible to download FreeCAD binaries from GitHub
Back-of-the-napkin response:sgrogan wrote: pinged by pinger macro
**Important Note:**
We've been receiving reports from users about difficulty downloading FreeCAD from Github. We're not certain if this is Github throttling the speed or issues with its AWS instances. Regardless, we apologize for the inconvenience. As we work on figuring out a solution, there exists a bittorrent option through FOSSTorrents (https://fosstorrents.com/softwares/cad/freecad/).
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Re: Impossible to download FreeCAD binaries from GitHub
Thank you. I don't mind at all. At least I can get the software now.Kunda1 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 20, 2020 7:12 pm Yea, this is becoming a PITA with github.
Do you mind using bittorrent?
https://fosstorrents.com/softwares/cad/freecad/
This reminds me of the time when Microsoft bought GitHub. Back then at my (then)work place we used to use Bitbucket a lot, and everything was fine with our repos. Sure, it cost some money, but it was well worth it. Then MS bought Github and somehow convinced top management migrating over a thousand of our fully CI/CD pipeline integrated repos to github is the best thing ever... Few days after few months long project to switch all our development repos to github was semi-complete github started throttling binary downloads. Various bull**** excuses from MS continued for weeks until eventually I was allowed to run a sync of all our repos to AWS code commit overnight(officially as a "Business Continuity Solution", but everyone knew why we had to do it). The bill ended up much higher than the previous butbucket cost, but at least we had an extra backup and it both worked well and "we were using github" ;-/
I didn't realize years later they are still doing that. How is it possible people use this service at all for binary blob storage? Do they only do it for some locations?
Anyway while I was typing this post the torrent finished downloading no problem. The link to it should definitely be on the main download page.
Re: Impossible to download FreeCAD binaries from GitHub
Indeed. Thanks for sharing. Yet another reason why we'll need to eventually figure out an in-house solution for both hosting source code and CI.
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Re: Impossible to download FreeCAD binaries from GitHub
As I said in another thread, I download from GitHub frequently, and I have *never* seen any evidence of throttling. I typically download 300-400 MB in less than a minute.
I suspect this is a regional server issue, not a global GitHub issue.
Does not help, of course, if you are in one of the "regions".
Gene
I suspect this is a regional server issue, not a global GitHub issue.
Does not help, of course, if you are in one of the "regions".
Gene