Feedback: nRF Connect Toolchain Manager download speed

RE: Feedback: nRF Connect Toolchain Manager download speed

emartec — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:33:27 GMT

This also worked great for me, download took less than 5 minutes. Thanks!

RE: Feedback: nRF Connect Toolchain Manager download speed

jrowberg — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:17:58 GMT

This still happened to me in April 2026, downloading the SDK and toolchain v3.2.4. I'm located in the US, and I was downloading through the VS Code nRF extensions for development there. It took multiple hours to download the first part at ~150 kB/sec, as above, and when the second part looked like it was going to do the same thing, I decided to turn on a VPN service I have with an exit node in Norway. Then the entire process finished in two minutes, downloading at around 20 MB/sec.

So, I don't know what the root cause is, but a VPN into Norway certainly did a good job working around it.

RE: Feedback: nRF Connect Toolchain Manager download speed

tristan_protium — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 11:04:57 GMT

Hi Øyvind ,

I have logged a support ticket already and am waiting for support on it.
Just adding to the above info to the thread for visibility as it does seem to be a recurring issue on a number of threads and forums, as the issue doesn't seem to be solved

Kind Regards,
Tristan

RE: Feedback: nRF Connect Toolchain Manager download speed

Øyvind — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 11:00:04 GMT

Hello, please register a new ticket providing more information on your current setup. This ticket is over years old and the information is outdated.

Kind regards,
Øyvind

RE: Feedback: nRF Connect Toolchain Manager download speed

tristan_protium — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:33:48 GMT

Also really struggling with this. V3.1.1 and has taken >3hrs so far to download the SDK via VS Code.

RE: Feedback: nRF Connect Toolchain Manager download speed

crasspm — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 19:59:56 GMT

I would like to second this feedback. Toolchain downloads are in the range of hours on a modern high speed connection. I wonder if cloud availability zones could be employed to speed things up?

RE: Feedback: nRF Connect Toolchain Manager download speed

Øyvind — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 11:22:49 GMT

Hello,

Thanks for the feedback. I will forward this to our Toolchain Manager team.

Kind regards,
Øyvind