(Runpod experience) Speaking of extra hours, runpodctl download speed is...honestly very disappointing. 3-5 MB/s in the best case, seriously? And it interrupts very often. My line can handle 100 MB/s, I never had one interruption in a year of work. I use it everyday, so I know for sure that the issue is not from my end, as I use plenty of different sources to do transfer. For instance, installing Automatic 1111 from zero, with all the packages and models is a thing I can do in less than 1 hour. This has nothing to do with Mr. Furkan's tutorials, but since he suggested to use runpodctl, I am sharing my experience. It could be an isolted case, I m not sure. So I begin to think that runpod just want us to sped more hours, if you add the fact that gradio freezes every single time, and the fact that often times GPUs are assigned when you are idle, which means again > transferring files > extra hours.
In short, using runpodctl to move 1 GB TO Runpod takes 10 second, which is fantastic. Moving it back to the same source takes 15 minutes if you re lucky. Moving the same size from another source (not from runpod) to the same destination takes less time, which proves that the transfer speed is controlled by Runpod.
Great service for GPU, but given that I am not an expert someone please explain why runpod's download speed is so terrible. I get faster download via browser,but...they interrupt.