Since a long time i have the problem, that nearly all connections to any engineering project (gerrit, wmflabs, phabricator,...) is extremly slow. Actually i'm developing from a remote server, where anything works fine, but i'm unable to clone projects to my local computer (except from github, e.g., but i can't commit changes to gerrit then :(). Anything i want to do takes a very long time (e.g. load an image in phabricator or clone a project from gerrit (which is, in fact, impossible)).
I tried to track down the problem and found out, that nearly any connection to wmf engeenering infrastructure has transfer rates from 8-25 kB/s, which isn't normal for my connection (DSL 16000 which 1,6MBit/s normally, e.g. from github or debian image hosts). So i made a tracert to gerrit (as an example), see:
C:\Users\Florian>tracert gerrit.wikimedia.org Routenverfolgung zu gerrit.wikimedia.org [208.80.154.81] über maximal 30 Hops: 1 2 ms <1 ms 1 ms speedport.ip [192.168.2.1] 2 26 ms 20 ms 19 ms 217.0.117.157 3 20 ms 21 ms 23 ms 87.186.195.242 4 23 ms 23 ms 23 ms hh-ea8-i.HH.DE.NET.DTAG.DE [62.154.32.129] 5 26 ms 30 ms 27 ms 80.150.168.162 6 30 ms 22 ms 22 ms hbg-bb4-link.telia.net [213.155.135.84] 7 142 ms 153 ms 145 ms ash-bb4-link.telia.net [62.115.141.112] 8 262 ms 236 ms 275 ms ash-b2-link.telia.net [62.115.134.58] 9 108 ms 111 ms 118 ms wikimedia-ic-308845-ash-b2.c.telia.net [80.239. 32.226] 10 163 ms 121 ms 113 ms gerrit.wikimedia.org [208.80.154.81] Ablaufverfolgung beendet. C:\Users\Florian>
Just as an example, i tried downloading MediaWiki's latest wmf snapshoot (wmf21) with the following result (i stopped after some minutes ;)):
florian@florian-VirtualBox:/var/www/html/w/extensions/MobileFrontend$ wget https://tools.wmflabs.org/snapshots/builds/mediawiki-core/mediawiki-snapshot-wmf_1_25wmf21-bc81f1e.tar.gz --2015-03-12 20:06:45-- https://tools.wmflabs.org/snapshots/builds/mediawiki-core/mediawiki-snapshot-wmf_1_25wmf21-bc81f1e.tar.gz Auflösen des Hostnamen »tools.wmflabs.org (tools.wmflabs.org)«... 208.80.155.131 Verbindungsaufbau zu tools.wmflabs.org (tools.wmflabs.org)|208.80.155.131|:443... verbunden. HTTP-Anforderung gesendet, warte auf Antwort... 200 OK Länge: 20337555 (19M) [application/octet-stream] In »»mediawiki-snapshot-wmf_1_25wmf21-bc81f1e.tar.gz«« speichern. 6% [=========> ] 1.285.946 11,4KB/s ETA 28m 45s
That's really really bad, can we do anything to change the current situation (maybe to a better one)? :( If any information is needed, i'm willing to give it :)