Python pip3 download extremely slow, can it be speeded up?

I am in China. That slows things down.

For blocked sites I can use Astrill to access them.

I don't know if Astrill will reroute pip3 install commands. Doesn't look like it.

Quote:

pedro@pedro-512ssd:~$ pip3 install numpy Collecting numpy Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packa...ux1_x86_64.whl (13.4MB) 0% | | 40kB 1.3kB/s eta 2:44:53

First, the download is extremely slow, then I keep getting a timeout.

Quote:

urllib3.exceptions.ReadTimeoutError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='files.pythonhosted.org', port=443): Read timed out.

Any way to speed this up?