On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 20:20 -0500, david wrote: > Jeff's comment about grabbing from a local mirror got me thinking about > distances to mirrors. So, I tried tracing the route to my local > University of Wisconsin, Madison mirror about 5 Miles down the road in > the Comp. Sci. building. For some odd reason sbcglobal is routing that > traffic through Chicago, Ill and back, about a 300 mile round trip. > Pinging is fast and my dsl line to always maxed out. There must be some > bizarrely fat pipes between Madison and Chicago; I might as well look > for a mirror in Chicago. > -dtf Similar situation here ... I've found that physical distance has little to do with throughput. Charter used to route traffic though NY/SF ... I sometimes would get faster throughput by downloading from European or Asian sites. I still do use the UW Madison mirror since I figure my tax dollars are paying for it and I should use it instead of somebody else's. Paul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
