Re: Incredibly slow mirror site

2006-10-04 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:29:33 +0100 Florent Thoumie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The problem i think is that many ports with multiple mirrors will use mirrors from 3rd world countries first, and the mirrors with real bandwidth will always be last on the list. Can anyone explain to me w

Re: Incredibly slow mirror site

2006-10-04 Thread Florent Thoumie
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 19:52 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 05:48:11PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > > > >> I'm building kde3 from ports, and the koffice install attempts to download > >> the tar.bz2 file from ftp.scarlet.be. The download is about

Re: Incredibly slow mirror site

2006-10-03 Thread Rainer Alves
Mike Jakubik wrote: The problem i think is that many ports with multiple mirrors will use mirrors from 3rd world countries first, and the mirrors with real bandwidth will always be last on the list. Can anyone explain to me why that is? Doesn't it make more sense to try the fastest one first?

Re: Incredibly slow mirror site

2006-10-03 Thread Mike Jakubik
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 05:48:11PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm building kde3 from ports, and the koffice install attempts to download the tar.bz2 file from ftp.scarlet.be. The download is about 2 BYTES per second! I stopped the download and fetched the file from

Re: Incredibly slow mirror site

2006-10-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 05:48:11PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > I'm building kde3 from ports, and the koffice install attempts to download > the tar.bz2 file from ftp.scarlet.be. The download is about 2 BYTES per > second! > > I stopped the download and fetched the file from somewhere else. >

Incredibly slow mirror site

2006-10-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
I'm building kde3 from ports, and the koffice install attempts to download the tar.bz2 file from ftp.scarlet.be. The download is about 2 BYTES per second! I stopped the download and fetched the file from somewhere else. Maybe someone should check that site? Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) A