Going by a couple of interesting diagrams I've found, I think pretty much all of Africa's bandwidth if routed through Europe before hitting the US.
This map shows the the data cable from SA going all up the west coast to England. http://www.telegeography.com/products/map_cable/images/Cable_Map_big.gif This one shows the bandwidth between geographic areas http://www.telegeography.com/products/map_traffic/images/traffic_map08_large.jpg It looks like the curve from SA heads through the thick yellow area from the US to Europe and hits the UK. This is probably why you are seeing slow transfers from the US. Downloading from a UK source would probably be faster for you, but SlimDevices don't have mirrors for their download server unfortunately. -- funkstar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53632 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
