On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:20:22PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 11 June 2010 11:52:42 Merciadri Luca wrote: > > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > Details: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGeoMirror > > > > What's the main interesting of using a server which is as near as > > possible from you, actually? > > Closer geographically generally means fewer intermediate routers ("hops"). > Fewer hops generally means lower round-time times ("pings"). Lower pings > indirectly allows larger TCP/IP windows, and thus, higher maximum bandwidth. > > In addition, spreading the load among multiple servers means fewer users per > server, which increases the bandwidth available to each user. > > More bandwidth means less download time. > > The cdn service also removes out-of-date, heavily loaded, or "down" servers > from the results, meaning you are less likely to get old packages or download > failures.
And presumably makes a tiny contribution to the efficeint use of resources worldwide Cheers, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100611180844.ga3...@gennes.augarten
