Downloads from Australia very slow, website load is slow too

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Hi There, getting very slow load times for packages. This is via the esphome cli. The site is not loading very well either in chrome.

INFO Installing platformio/framework-arduinoespressif32 @ ~3.20000.0
Downloading  [####################################]  100%          
Tool Manager: Warning! Package Mirror: file could not be opened successfully:
- method gz: CompressionError('gzip module is not available')
- method bz2: ReadError('not a bzip2 file')
- method xz: ReadError('not an lzma file')
- method tar: ReadError('invalid header')
WARNING Warning! Package Mirror: file could not be opened successfully:
- method gz: CompressionError('gzip module is not available')
- method bz2: ReadError('not a bzip2 file')
- method xz: ReadError('not an lzma file')
- method tar: ReadError('invalid header')
Tool Manager: Looking for another mirror...
WARNING Looking for another mirror...
Tool Manager: Warning! Package Mirror: file could not be opened successfully:
- method gz: CompressionError('gzip module is not available')
- method bz2: ReadError('not a bzip2 file')
- method xz: ReadError('not an lzma file')
- method tar: ReadError('invalid header')
WARNING Warning! Package Mirror: file could not be opened successfully:
- method gz: CompressionError('gzip module is not available')
- method bz2: ReadError('not a bzip2 file')
- method xz: ReadError('not an lzma file')
- method tar: ReadError('invalid header')
Tool Manager: Looking for another mirror...
WARNING Looking for another mirror...
Downloading  [##----------------------------------]    6%  01:51:58
Downloading...
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I now understand theres a couple of undersea fibre cables between AU and singapore/middle east currently out of action. I guess I was hoping there would be a mirror somewhere locally?

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It looks like you have an incomplete Python interpreter installed on your machine. What is your OS?

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Yes it seemed that was the issue, I had an old version of python 3.11.9 aliased. Fixed and now running very quickly with python 3.12.3

BTW on Mac 14.4.1

Thanks!

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