From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 7 14:27:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5B3C37B402 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 14:27:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16NiEU-000EkZ-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2002 22:27:06 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386), from userid 500) id 1C4601171; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 23:27:06 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 23:27:06 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Restricting Users Geographically Message-ID: <20020107222706.GC1093@raggedclown.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:09:04PM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote: > > > Actually location of origin isn't as important as # of hops and ping times. > > If everyone used the mirrors closest to them in terms of routing (least > number of hops) then the overall traffic on the internet would be less and > performance would be improved as a whole. > > - Scott Also measurably interesting is the time of day. If you live in Western Europe for example 6-9 a.m is a good time for downloads if you need something from a site in the US, because that is the quietest time on the internet as a whole. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message