When I try to install anything using snap, I found out that the download speed is very slow. As shown in the screenshot, it is about 20 kb/s:
How can I install a snap fast?
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I encountered a same problem. Snap uses Fastly CDN, which means your speed is determined by which Fastly CDN node you get. If you get a nearest one, the speed can be very quick.
You can execute this command to find out which node you got: dig fastly.cdn.snapcraft.io For me, it was 151.101.26.217 and very slow.
So I changed it to 151.101.62.217 in /etc/hosts and the speed improved from 10k/s to 1M/s. I installed pycharm in 5 minutes.
How to set hosts? Just add a new line in your /etc/hosts:
151.101.62.217 fastly.cdn.snapcraft.io
Eliah Kagan
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Genghis Yang
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Add the following config to your /etc/hosts:
91.189.91.43 darkbowser.canonical.com
Then you will get a very fast speed.
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wen bazhang
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The following works for me in China. Download speed increased from 20kB to 900kB/s.
sudo snap install snap-store-proxy
sudo snap install snap-store-proxy-client
I tried the answer by Genghis Yang but no improvement for me.
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Use dns checker service on the web to get the nearest ip of fastly.cdn.snapcraft.io, in my case it went up from 25KB/s to 25MB/s
84.200.69.80 (DNS.WATCH - DE)
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This one is working for me awesome. I was getting 40Kb after adding this I get 3Mb plus.
sudo nano /etc/hosts
91.189.91.43 darkbowser.canonical.com
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