On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 3:07 PM, clemens fischer wrote: > On Tue-2011/10/11-07:12 C Anthony Risinger wrote: > > > On Oct 10, 2011 7:41 PM, "Martin" <...> wrote: > > > >> [spanish] ... [/spanish] > > > > ... and then no one else can benefit or contribute to this out-of-band > > conversation? > Clemens, what's the link between the text you're quoting and your answer? > Why yes! instead of "reflector", pacman's own "rankmirrors" script > provides a speed ranking of mirrors _as seen from the ocal site_ instead > of the archlinux json interface, which runs server-side and seems to > favour japanese and american mirrors. > > Mirror status provided by ArchLinux may be filtered by country. They have freshness status included thus making them more useful (if the fastest mirror has not been updated for a week it is not the best mirror to choose). -- Cédric Girard
