# Git Clone too slow **URL:** \ **Category:** Install/Maintain/Configure\ **Created:** [March 21, 2024, 10:51am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/git-clone-too-slow/8808 "2024-03-21T10:51:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![drakgoku](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/drakgoku/32/4496_2.png) [@drakgoku](https://forum.gitea.com/u/drakgoku)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2024, 10:51am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/git-clone-too-slow/8808/1 "2024-03-21T10:51:37Z")
While I have made a clone to a Gitea repository with a project of ~9GB In parallel I have uploaded the same project to GitHub. 1 - Push - It doesn’t even take ~5 minutes 2 - Clone - It doesn’t even take ~5 minutes When I was done with GitHub, Gitea had only downloaded 100 MB. Well, my question, what happens to the bandwidth? ---
**Author:** ![drakgoku](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/drakgoku/32/4496_2.png) [@drakgoku](https://forum.gitea.com/u/drakgoku)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2024, 1:37pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/git-clone-too-slow/8808/2 "2024-03-21T13:37:31Z")
We are going to put gitea to the test with a single 8GB project. This is going to be funny. First Clone [![](https://i.imgur.com/mIMfAdi.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/mIMfAdi.png) After a while [![](https://i.imgur.com/19k3n7A.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/19k3n7A.png) [![](https://i.imgur.com/r7YYLLj.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/r7YYLLj.png) Hopefully it will be downloaded by tomorrow. I will upload an image every hour. If each hour makes approximately 400-500MB, we will have approximately 16 for 8GB, unless it speeds up at some point… this is going to be a long time. Will I get it before 12 midnight? I don’t want to imagine if Epic Games worked with you… I don’t even want to imagine. _By the way, don’t tell me nonsense about the filtering for “–depth 1” it only has a single commit._ ---
**Author:** ![jolheiser](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/jolheiser/32/4807_2.png) [@jolheiser](https://forum.gitea.com/u/jolheiser)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/git-clone-too-slow/8808/3 "2024-03-21T14:15:40Z")
Have you tried this with a Gitea installation you are running? [gitea.com](http://gitea.com) is not going to be anywhere near as responsive as github for a few reasons, notably server location and resources available to the machine. ---
**Author:** ![drakgoku](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/drakgoku/32/4496_2.png) [@drakgoku](https://forum.gitea.com/u/drakgoku)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2024, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/git-clone-too-slow/8808/4 "2024-03-21T15:09:15Z")
I’m back to GitLab. I can’t stay here wasting time when I need to work. I hope that in the not too distant future I will be able to use Gitea. For now, that is not the case. ---
**Author:** ![jolheiser](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/jolheiser/32/4807_2.png) [@jolheiser](https://forum.gitea.com/u/jolheiser)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2024, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/git-clone-too-slow/8808/5 "2024-03-21T15:27:19Z")
I’m curious what the difference would be running your own instance, but if “using Gitea” means “using [gitea.com](http://gitea.com)” then I’m not sure, it will depend on the factors I mentioned in the previous reply. But in any case, sorry it didn’t work out. Happy coding! ---
**Author:** ![lunny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/lunny/32/4701_2.png) [@lunny](https://forum.gitea.com/u/lunny)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2024, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/git-clone-too-slow/8808/6 "2024-03-22T14:45:53Z")
[Gitea.com](http://Gitea.com) has speed limitations for most projects. ---
**Author:** ![eeyrjmr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/eeyrjmr/32/1095_2.png) [@eeyrjmr](https://forum.gitea.com/u/eeyrjmr)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2024, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/git-clone-too-slow/8808/7 "2024-03-23T17:45:37Z")
> [@drakgoku](#): > > I’m back to GitLab. I can’t stay here wasting time when I need to work. > > I hope that in the not too distant future I will be able to use Gitea. For now, that is not the case. why are you not using gitea locally?