On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 12:18:28AM +0800, John Summerfield enlightened us: > chrism at imntv.com wrote: > > >>If you read my earlier posts, you might have noticed terms like > >>"download limits." > >> > >>Most users don't have "all you can eat" plans, and if they exceed > >>their quota they can be charged extra ($60-120 per gigabyte) or br > >>throttled back to modemesque speeds. > > > > > >What on Earth does that have to do with anything? You've got poor > >connectivity or expensive connectivity or both in the "last mile" part > >of your link to the Internet. How is changing the mirroring system > >going to help you or others like you? > > You haven't shown how the mirroring system find a good mirror, and the > evidence Johnny gave shows it doesn't. > IT seems to me your definition of "good" and everyone else's is not the same. You seem to think good means local to you - everyone else who doesn't have last mile cost considerations (probably a majority of non-AU users) just want to get their stuff the fastest - hence the fastest-mirror plugin. I think that's pretty good evidence that for the majority of CentOS users, that's a good system. > There _are_ good mirrors, I wasted some time perusing broadband plans > and found another (only has I32 and AMD-64, but finding zSeries was a > surprise). > > Your mirror system doesn't show them to users, and that's a problem to > those users whom it costs. > We can't show them to users if we don't know about them. We aren't mind readers, contrary to popular belief. > > _I_ think Debian handles mirrors pretty well, it lets me specify country > and gives me a choice, and the names I see mean something. > http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=13 > Those Centos names might mean something to someone, but from here they > just looked like someone chose random (or maybe consecutive) letters to > differentiate their names. When I believed they are Australian, I tried > to match them to Australian localities, but failed. There may be a valid point here. I don't help manage the centosX servers, so I am unaware if they frequently change locations, etc. If they are relatively static, then perhaps a naming scheme that indicates country or continent of origin would be useful. But again - I don't think most people care. If a server half a world away is faster, I'm going to use that one. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263