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