[CentOS] fasttest mirror -doesnt seem to pick sites near my region

fwiw, it appears "linux advocate" is sending his email from a Malaysia 
IP per the email headres...

$ whois 60.50.xxx.yyy
[Querying whois.apnic.net]
[whois.apnic.net]
% [whois.apnic.net node-2]
% Whois data copyright terms    http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html

inetnum:      60.48.0.0 -  60.54.255.255
netname:      XDSLSTREAMYX
descr:        Telekom Malaysia Berhad
descr:        Network Strategy
descr:        Wisma Telekom
descr:        Jalan Pantai Baru
descr:        50672 Kuala Lumpur
country:      MY

.....

A couple different geo-ip databases I queried on the web 
(geoiptool.com   maxmind.com) concurred