[occoder]

I do have a few suggestions, starting from least effort for most impact:

1. AFAICT pythonhosted.org is hosted at fastly.net, which seems to be heavily throttling downloads from certain disprivileged locations, as well as downloads from cloud providers such as Linode. It would help a lot if they could ease up a little on the aggressive throttling.

2. Make the pip download timeout longer to better accommodate spotty connections.

3. Make pip downloads resumable so that a download makes progress each time pip install is run.

4. Make pip download each file over multiple HTTP connections in parallel. Download throttling applies to a single connection, so downloading over multiple connections will speedup the download.

Thanks a lot for listening!