From: Jack <ostroffjh@users.sourceforge.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: feature request: easier "auto select a close mirror for me"
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 20:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bUVMziukjQBqwRi+IEW4cv@WsWcpFUqLsIWPAWGZYDYg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18474984.20150828212305@yandex.ru> (from anrdaemon@yandex.ru on Fri Aug 28 14:23:05 2015)
On 2015.08.28 14:23, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Roger Pack!
>
> > It would be awesome if the top option for servers were "auto select
> > closest" or something like that.
>
> How would it know where you are located and how do you define
> "closest"?
> The mirrors that are "close" to me give worst speed comparing to the
> ones
> across the ocean.
I wouldn't make it part of setup.exe, but a separate tool, like Arch
Linux's mirrorselect. It finds the server with the best response, or
perhaps the best N servers. Yes, "best response" is subject to
interpretation, but some combination of low latency and fastest
download of some (small?) test file, perhaps.
Jack
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-28 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-28 18:35 Roger Pack
2015-08-28 18:50 ` Andrey Repin
2015-08-28 20:49 ` Jack [this message]
2015-08-28 21:47 ` Warren Young
2015-08-29 17:15 ` Philip Daniels
2015-08-29 19:19 ` Andrey Repin
2015-08-30 11:45 ` Warren Young
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