[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-2730?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.... ] Nick Boldt commented on JBDS-2730: ---------------------------------- Similar results for me replicating your tests. These were all done w/ VPN disabled, running in a Fedora 20 VM inside of Windows 8.1, at home: Downloading large file w/o Amakai: {code} 100%[=======================================================================================================>] 507,139,990 867KB/s in 8m 12s 2014-10-08 12:42:27 (1006 KB/s) - ‘jbdevstudiotarget-4.40.0.CR1-SNAPSHOT.zip’ saved [507139990/507139990] {code} Downloading with Akamai: {code} 100%[=======================================================================================================>] 507,139,990 1.25MB/s in 5m 52s 100%[=======================================================================================================>] 507,139,990 1.58MB/s in 5m 30s 100%[=======================================================================================================>] 507,139,990 1.29MB/s in 6m 42s {code} Installing via commandline: {code} $ time java -jar plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20140415-2008.jar -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director -repository http://devstudio.redhat.com/static/updates/8.0.0/jboss-devstudio-8.0.0.CR... -installIU com.jboss.devstudio.core.feature.feature.group org.eclipse.m2e.logback.configuration: The org.eclipse.m2e.logback.configuration bundle was activated before the state location was initialized. Will retry after the state location is initialized. Installing com.jboss.devstudio.core.feature.feature.group 8.0.0.CR1-v20140915-0805-B246. Operation completed in 261693 ms. real 4m44.231s {code} Installing w/ Akamai: {code} real 4m12.541s real 3m55.568s real 4m16.300s {code} So in both cases we're getting ~25% faster performance. My home bandwidth is: 25-29MB/s down (nominal 30MB), 4-5MB/s up (nominal 5MB). -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.1#6329)