Am 25.08.2009 um 23:16 schrieb Lanny Marcus: > > Hi Johnny and thank you for asking for feedback. I am in Cali, > Colombia, South America. > Our route to Brazil, for one of many examples, would be via Miami/Ft. > Lauderdale, Florida, USA. So, for us, in Colombia, it is much better > to have a Mirror site in South Florida or the S.E. USA, if possible; > since I do not believe there is one in Colombia. The fact that > Colombia is adjacent to Panama, Brazil, Venezuela, etc., would make a > Mirror in one of those countries faster, *if* we had a direct route on > the Internet to them, but, we don't. I suspect for most countries in > Latin America, this would be the same, since Latin America is so > strongly connected to Miami, "the capital" of Latin America. Lanny > _______________________________________________ Though off-topic, I find this interesting. Don't you in South America have some sort of high-speed network connecting the various universities there? Don't you have peering-points somewhere? Sorry for hijacking this thread... Rainer