Discovering the reason your machine was slow downloading large open-weight models from Huggingface for months on end is because you were using an old 100baseT Ethernet cable.

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@_dm and make sure you don't have a kink in the cable. It'll make a hissing noise as the packets try to squeeze through.
@parkern I want oxygen-free ethernet cables, right? I heard that will improve the quality of the ML models.