[hinkley]

Sounds, based on other responders, like high latency high bandwidth, which is a problem many of us have trouble wrapping our heads around. Maybe complicated by packet loss.

After COVID I had to set up a compressing proxy for Artifactory and file a bug with JFrog about it because some of my coworkers with packet loss were getting request timeouts that npm didn’t handle well at all. Npm of that era didn’t bother to check bytes received versus content-length and then would cache the wrong answer. One of my many, many complaints about what total garbage npm was prior to ~8 when the refactoring work first started paying dividends.