Visual: Mirrors vs Users

[Mike McGrath]

I wrote a little call to help post today as well as a comparison of 
where our users are vs mirrors.  This is using a small sampling of 
people that have connected to our mirrors site.  Not an exact science 
but interesting none the less, thought I'd share.

http://mmcgrath.livejournal.com/8797.html

-Mike

[Eugene Teo]

Mike McGrath wrote:
> I wrote a little call to help post today as well as a comparison of
> where our users are vs mirrors.  This is using a small sampling of
> people that have connected to our mirrors site.  Not an exact science
> but interesting none the less, thought I'd share.
>
> http://mmcgrath.livejournal.com/8797.html

FWIW, there is a need to have more Fedora mirrors in China. Downloading/
Updating packages was quite a pain until a mirror (thanks to Candis) was
setup. I was complained when I attended BLUG in Beijing. But if there are
any Chinese volunteers here who is able to setup a mirror, that would really
help our users *a lot*.

Eugene

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

Mike McGrath wrote:
> I wrote a little call to help post today as well as a comparison of 
> where our users are vs mirrors.  This is using a small sampling of 
> people that have connected to our mirrors site.  Not an exact science 
> but interesting none the less, thought I'd share.
>
> http://mmcgrath.livejournal.com/8797.html
>
> -Mike

I know in Australia there are  a lot of ISP's that mirror off each other 
and that generally propagates out.  The example is my isp 
ftp.iinet.net.au mirrors off planetmirror yet its done on a 24 hour 
basis I believe.  The only issue I have is that if the release of Fedora 
happens to be on a Thursday/Friday US time then we don't get it till 
Monday, Tuesday of the following week.  While thats not your issue it's 
painting a picture of how my isp works.

Is there a way to talk to some of the mirrors in Australia?  I know of 
about 3-4 mirrors that aren't listed (not confirmed) maybe because they 
are sub-mirrors.

Cheers,

Marc

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:
> Mike McGrath wrote:
> > I wrote a little call to help post today as well as a comparison of 
> > where our users are vs mirrors.  This is using a small sampling of 
> > people that have connected to our mirrors site.  Not an exact science 
> > but interesting none the less, thought I'd share.
> >
> > http://mmcgrath.livejournal.com/8797.html
> >
> > -Mike
>
> I know in Australia there are  a lot of ISP's that mirror off each 
> other and that generally propagates out.  The example is my isp 
> ftp.iinet.net.au mirrors off planetmirror yet its done on a 24 hour 
> basis I believe.  The only issue I have is that if the release of 
> Fedora happens to be on a Thursday/Friday US time then we don't get it 
> till Monday, Tuesday of the following week.  While thats not your 
> issue it's painting a picture of how my isp works.
>
> Is there a way to talk to some of the mirrors in Australia?  I know of 
> about 3-4 mirrors that aren't listed (not confirmed) maybe because 
> they are sub-mirrors.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marc

I suppose to add to the list to make it at least of some value.

http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/ - Not fedora 7 (not sure why but a lot of 
people struggled in switching)
ftp://ftp.iinet.net.au - Does some of Fedora
http://mirror.internode.on.net/ Does some
http://www.pacific.net.au/mirror/
http://www.filearena.net/

These are just a quick look. There are a few universities that offer 
mirroring as well.  Is there a way to get a look at a region's mirrors 
to see if marketing can help locate other mirrors for infrastructure to 
have a chat to?

Cheers,

Marc

[Rahul Sundaram]

Mike McGrath wrote:
> I wrote a little call to help post today as well as a comparison of 
> where our users are vs mirrors.  This is using a small sampling of 
> people that have connected to our mirrors site.  Not an exact science 
> but interesting none the less, thought I'd share.
>
> http://mmcgrath.livejournal.com/8797.html

You have some hope here

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-india/2007-September/msg00016.html

Rahul