Traffic limits on downloads exceeded?

Eric evil.function at proton.me
Mon Nov 9 06:29:49 PST 2026


Hi Baptiste,

Thanks for the update.

Do we have any clue as to why we went over the limit?  Did someone set
up a mirror or something that blew through the cap?

Eric

On Monday, November 9th, 2026 at 04:40, Baptiste Jonglez <baptiste at bitsofnetworks.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> FYI, traffic rate-limit was automatically lifted this morning.
> 
> Problem started at 2026-11-06 16:10 UTC
> 
> Solved at 2026-11-09 00:08 UTC
> 
> Regards,
> Baptiste
> 
> On 07-11-26, Paul Spooren wrote:
> > Hi Eric, you’re right, we hit the sponsored traffic limit and server everything at 200mbit/s.
> >
> > I’ll check with the infra team how we can improve this situation, stay posted.
> >
> > Best,
> > Paul
> >
> > > On 7. Nov 2026, at 17:40, Eric via openwrt-devel <openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org> wrote:
> > >
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> > > From: Eric <evil.function at proton.me>
> > > Subject: Traffic limits on downloads exceeded?
> > > Date: 7. November 2026 at 17:40:12 GMT+1
> > > To: openwrt-devel <openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org>
> > >
> > >
> > > We're currently getting a lot of reports of ASU builds timing out (a build
> > > request that runs for more than 10 minutes is assumed to be hung, so is
> > > killed).  This is happening on both the official sysupgrade.openwrt.org
> > > server, and I'm also seeing it on my home server.
> > >
> > > I'm watching htop on my server and it's showing that it's taking 4-8 minutes
> > > to do 'wget https://downloads/...imagebuilder' and sometimes a minute to get
> > > other biggish files.
> > >
> > > Back in January we had some issues similar to this that were due to rate
> > > limiting on downloads.  This looks suspiciously like the same behavior,
> > > as I can later duplicate the 'wget' and it runs in normal 10-20 seconds...
> > >
> > > https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2026-January/044501.html
> > >
> > > Eric
> > >
> > >
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