On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Matt Domsch <mdomsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:00:02PM +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > > But you should ensure that Fedora project checks that new mirrors have > > at least 25 Mbps connection. For instance, the mirrors mirror.wbut.ac.in > > is very slow. As you know that some speed is lost in the distance the > > data has to cover. This mirror is located in West-Bengal, North-East of > > India. I am living in Maharashtra, South-West of India. The distance > > would be around 3000+ Kms. I get a speed of 4.5-7 Kbps speed on my 128 > > Kbps connection with these mirrors while with any other US/Eur Mirror, I > > get 15-30 Kbps. > In India getting bandwidth of at least 25 Mbps is next to impossible . so you need to work with slower ones . Wbut mirror got recently upgraded to 8mbps line . One more point getting speed from depends on ISP provider (client side ) also . Even located just 180 KM from wbut mirror I wont get anything better than 30 KBps . My ISP does permit more than that . While some other guys in different ISP gets much better speeds . > We have very few mirrors in India to begin with. While we generally > request mirrors have 100Mbit or faster connections, we will make > exceptions for areas where we have few mirrors and where we have had > little luck finding volunteers to run faster ones. > > Matching users to mirrors based on country isn't perfect, and I'm > always open to better algorithms. I recently added a lookup for > clients and mirrors connected via Internet2 or one of its peers. If > someone can describe how to better guess the network topology, exactly > for cases such as yours, I'm all ears. > > Thanks, > Matt > Fedora Mirror Wrangler > > -- > Matt Domsch > Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO > linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- Regards Subhodip Biswas GPG key : FAEA34AB Server : pgp.mit.edu http://subhodipbiswas.wordpress.com http:/www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/SubhodipBiswas
