On Wednesday 29 October 2008 14:26:02 Marco d'Itri wrote: > I believe we should have a policy of not listing mirrors whose available > bandwidth is not suitable to provide acceptable service in their area. > > One of such examples is debian.dynamica.it: it obviously has a 4 Mbps > bandwidth limit, less than the typical italian DSL. > It's not a per-client limit, it has 4 Mbps and that's all. > > See for yourself: > > wget -O /dev/null > http://debian.dynamica.it/debian/pool/main/v/vegastrike-data/vegastrike-dat >a_0.4.3.orig.tar.gz > > -- > ciao, > Marco If you are really worried about speed then have a look at netselect-apt that will show you which mirror is fastest for you. <rant> At least you get speeds greater then 1Mbps, there are some countries where 4Mbps is the max available speed. </rant> <rant part2> Yes I am annoyed and bitter cause my country is 20 years behind with internet, and most of our options (that are cheapish) have caps. </rant part2> -- Thank you, Clifford W. Hansen PHP Developer / Linux Administrator (Mobile/SMS) +27 82 883 8677 (Fax) +27 86 503 0634 (E-Mail/Jabber/GMail) clifford@nighthawk.co.za (GPG) 0x936D6C19 (Web) http://nighthawk.co.za/ "We have seen strange things today!" () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
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