On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 23:36 -0500, Matt Domsch 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. > > 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 Hi, Matt, Maybe you could finagle an angle with one or more of those speed meter sites? Maybe the mirrors would or could run a speed meter application accessed by the RPM software to assess speed prior to establishing the connection. Something like a quick burst to check 3 or 4 sites then choosing the best one? Regards, Les H
