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[Belxjander Serechai <belxjander_serechai AT yahoo.co.nz>]

Only ever issue I have is randomly having some package tarballs fail and 
needing use of the fallback mirrors to get the file
but that seems all related to an ISP transparent proxy misbehaving when 
overloaded


--- On Sun, 20/4/08, Mathieu L. <lejatorn AT smgl.homelinux.net> wrote:

> From: Mathieu L. <lejatorn AT smgl.homelinux.net>
> Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Do you download our products fast enough?
> To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Received: Sunday, 20 April, 2008, 4:20 AM
> Hi all,
> 
> I just wanted to add that if there's enough demand for
> it (i.e: if some
> of you in Europe think we could do better for our
> mirroring) I could try
> and ask the uni where I'm currently working to host
> some of our
> material. I can't garantee it, but as they're
> already mirroring quite a
> lot of Free stuff (ftp://ftp.jussieu.fr/pub/) I think
> it'd be worth a
> shot. Especially since it's quite a nice pipe they have
> there.
> 
> I just don't want to ask them if we don't have any
> need for it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mathieu.
> 
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 04:09:10PM -0700, Eric Sandall
> wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > In the past we have turned down extra hosting for
> mirrors (not just fallback 
> > mirrors, but full mirrors such as dbg and ibiblio) as
> our current mirrors are 
> > more than sufficient.
> > 
> > Is anyone finding themselves not receiving fast[0]
> downloads from our mirrors 
> > in their locality? Should we look to finding mirrors
> placed in various 
> > locations around the world? The U.S., currently, seems
> well taken care of, but 
> > what about the rest of the world?
> > 
> > Is this even a concern or problem for anyone? I
> haven't been hearing any 
> > complaints, but I don't want to exclude people
> from getting SMGL as fast as 
> > they can. ;)
> > 
> > -sandalle
> > 
> > [0] Obviously you won't be getting 10Mbps if
> *your* ISP only allows 1Mbps. ;)
> > 
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