On Jan 1, 2013, at 11:54 PM, Jeremy Lavergne <[email protected]> wrote: > Any US east coast devs: does the French mirror get used often for your > archive downloads? > >> From Boston, MA lil.fr.packages.macports.org responds faster to pings than >> packages.macports.org. Since MacPorts uses ping time to calculate where to >> make its initial requests from, we might be sending people across the ocean >> when it isn't for any actual benefit.
how do you know it isn't for any actual benefit? (tcp likes less delay...) > After spotting the french mirror being used, my initial check saw these times > (ping, 5 samples each): > average lil.fr.macports.org response: 102.6ms > average packages.macports.org response: 123.8ms it would probably be worth comparing file transfer speeds from your location to the two mirrors when you're seeing different ping times like that... -- Daniel J. Luke +========================================================+ | *---------------- [email protected] ----------------* | | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | +========================================================+ | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | | reflect the opinions of my employer. | +========================================================+ _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
