Hello, On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 01:28:56AM +0100, Chris wrote: > On 18/04/06, Colin Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why do you think there should be an .eu mirror? > > Whilst portsnap is fast, it is a noticeable speed difference when > using from eu servers, I also think its a good idea for redundancy.
I did not yet check in the sources or with tcpdump, but from the htrougput I see, I'd guess, there's a lot of sequential two-way communication involved. That kind of traffic is massively influenced by latency. While most sites in europe are reachable for me with a latency of 15-30ms, I have between 120 and 200 ms to most sites across the atlantic. Maybe this is old-school and not valid today anymore as it was 10 years ago, but keeping traffic local and not pushing the same data through the big exchanges and long distance lines again and again stil seems reasonable to me for various reasons. I also vote for more geographic distribution and a local mirror in europe. While not having any usage data (current usage, hstroy, perspectives), I cannot decide of course, if the time has already come, but I think time will come in foreseeable future. - Oliver -- | Oliver Brandmueller | Offenbacher Str. 1 | Germany D-14197 Berlin | | Fon +49-172-3130856 | Fax +49-172-3145027 | WWW: http://the.addict.de/ | | Ich bin das Internet. Sowahr ich Gott helfe. | | Eine gewerbliche Nutzung aller enthaltenen Adressen ist nicht gestattet! |
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