On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:11:40 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On the other hand, we don't necessarily have to be able to pick the > > optimal mirror. It's probably good enough to pick a good one. > Right, with bottlenecks usually being at the last mile, all good mirrors > will have nearly the same speed. Picking any from the general area should > be fine. For a rather broad value of "general area"; random anecdote: After DebConf10 I forgot to set the mirror on my laptop back to a regional one; and I only realized it days later because the mirror at Columbia University works just fine in Central Europe :) The only times I switch mirrors when being at home are when either the server has a problem (like being outdated) or my network connection (like the IPv6 tunnel being down). - And both is not really about geography or "network in general". Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Zueriwest: Harry Klein
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