BST.LT - The Information Company wrote: > i propose to skip 2-3 maximum ping results and then average to determine > best mirror. This will prevent selecting wrong mirror if mirror sits on > OpenVZ VPS. > > Any opinions? there are no centos mirrors running from vps's that I know of. Certainly none of the .centos.org machines are vps's/ Also, fastestmirror does not use 'ping' to determine the mirror speed.