Slow download speed

CostasBal

@Ave-Maria yes. I tested it but i forgot to reply here! :)

cauefelipe1

@CostasBal Thank you blessed person.
But it's ridiculous that the installer cannot provide a way to choose the mirror or even keep switching and hook to the faster one...

SGaist

@cauefelipe1 you can change the mirror from the command line. There's also a ticket that has been opened to make it easier to do it from the UI.

Jorge Escobar

Their download speeds are a joke.
And they expect people to pay for it? It's been 2 hours already and I'm not even on 10%

I was looking for an alternative to tkinter, but now I get what "simple" meant on tkninter's description.

Just pass on this, the forums don't allow you to store pictures? what a joke. It's 2023 people.
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JonB

@Jorge-Escobar said in Slow download speed:

And they expect people to pay for it?

I truly don't know: if you pay for a commercial license is there not a faster download available to you?

kkoehne

@JonB said in Slow download speed:

if you pay for a commercial license is there not a faster download available to you?

Yes. Commercial customers are served via Amazon AWS. For open source users, we're relying on a network of servers: https://download.qt.io/static/mirrorlist/. Typically the speed are OK there, but it happens that some servers just get slow, and then the list need to be tweaked ...

kkoehne

@kkoehne If you administer a server yourself, or know an organization who would volunteer to set up a mirror, let us know ! https://wiki.qt.io/Mirror_howto

kkoehne

@Jorge-Escobar said in Slow download speed:

I was looking for an alternative to tkinter, but now I get what "simple" meant on tkninter's description.

This sounds like you're interested in just the python bindings. Then actually

pip install pyside6

is your friend :)

JonB

@kkoehne said in Slow download speed:

Yes. Commercial customers are served via Amazon AWS.

So I don't know why @Jorge-Escobar is complaining about "And they expect people to pay for it?", if he is paying for a commercial licence he should use that.

Milkiananas

@CostasBal
Also works on macOS, in which case pull out .app and from the terminal:
./qt-unified-macOS-x64-4.6.0-online.app/Contents/MacOS/qt-unified-macOS-x64-4.6.0-online --mirror https://qt-mirror.dannhauer.de/

Finish installation in minutes! Great job!

csab6597

@CostasBal Currently also experiencing horrible download speeds

But nowadays we can just use the Qt installer with an option to select the mirror. On Windows it is .\MaintenanceTool.exe --mirror https://somemirror.com (with one address from https://download.qt.io/static/mirrorlist/)

No need to use the old Repo Chooser anymore

JKSH

@csab6597 said in Slow download speed:

No need to use the old Repo Chooser anymore

Correct.

You cannot use the old Qt SDK Repo Chooser anymore as it does not work with the latest installer. Fortunately, Qt SDK Repo Chooser is no longer needed because the latest installer lets you select a mirror via a console argument.

csab6597

@csab6597 Well, apparently mirrors are not alyways complete. Tried different european mirrors, got

Error transferring https://ftp.fau.de/qtproject//qtsdkrepository/windows_x86/desktop/qt6_652_insighttracker/qt.qt6.652.examples.qtinsighttracker/6.5.2-0-202307080351tqtc-qtinsighttracker-examples-6.5.2.7z.sha1 - server replied: Not Found

Jique

@csab6597 Googling that error I found https://forum.qt.io/topic/146776/qt-online-installer-file-not-found from 5 days ago. For me also Installer version 4.6.0 didn't work, so I tried version 4.5.1 and it worked (found it from my downloads folder, I don't know how to get older versions from the website)

mpergand

@Jique said in Slow download speed:

I don't know how to get older versions from the website

https://download.qt.io/archive/online_installers/