# Using Github for cloning instead of git.openwrt.org

**URL:** <https://forum.openwrt.org/t/using-github-for-cloning-instead-of-git-openwrt-org/99280>\
**Category:** Talk about Documentation\
**Created:** [June 16, 2021, 6:26pm UTC](https://forum.openwrt.org/t/using-github-for-cloning-instead-of-git-openwrt-org/99280 "2021-06-16T18:26:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 16, 2021, 6:26pm UTC](https://forum.openwrt.org/t/using-github-for-cloning-instead-of-git-openwrt-org/99280/1 "2021-06-16T18:26:07Z")

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Hi,  
I was following [this guide](https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/quickstart-build-images#clone_repository).

The cloning speed is very slow(like 20kb/s), I think it would be better to also mention about GitHub mirror in the quickstart documentation, as it's faster to clone(around 3mb/s)

Someone already mentioned about this issue [before](https://forum.openwrt.org/t/clone-git-openwrt-org-slow/42054/28).

Currently, I don't have access to edit the documentation, otherwise I would have done it myself.

Thanks