> Traditionally mirrors provide a reference to their geographic > location. While by no means a guarantee to improved transfer > speeds, this is a useful reference, especially for clients that > wish to use a single source for data transfers (as opposed > to parallel downloads).
I disagree; there are many, many factors to take into account when selecting a mirror; geographic location is quite low on the list, and can be found through other means in any case (see RFC1876).
