On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 20:20 -0500, david wrote:
Jeff's comment about grabbing from a local mirror got me thinking
about
distances to mirrors. So, I tried tracing the route to my local
University of Wisconsin, Madison mirror about 5 Miles down the road in
the Comp. Sci. building. For some odd reason sbcglobal is routing that
traffic through Chicago, Ill and back, about a 300 mile round trip.
Pinging is fast and my dsl line to always maxed out. There must be some
bizarrely fat pipes between Madison and Chicago; I might as well look
for a mirror in Chicago.
-dtf
Similar situation here ... I've found that physical distance has little
to do with throughput. Charter used to route traffic though NY/SF ... I
sometimes would get faster throughput by downloading from European or
Asian sites. I still do use the UW Madison mirror since I figure my tax
dollars are paying for it and I should use it instead of somebody
else's.
Paul