On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Julian Stacey wrote:
Some servers for ports/ fetch are also incredibly slow, but fetch will
hang in there trying, even if another site lower in the list might
be nearer &/or faster.
There is a tool called fastest_sites that uses round trip for the tcp
hanshake wich is a little bit better than ping. I wrote about it here:
http://www.arnold.se/chris/2008/11/how-to-speed-up-downloading-ports/
But the real solution is to do this the right waw. And we are a couple of
people involved in making this happen. Notheing ready yet but be shure you
will read all about it soon on a mailling list close to you...
/Chris
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http://www.arnold.se/chris
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