Bandwidth problems at beta time

[Evan Broder]

Simon Olofsson wrote:
> Laurent,
>
> On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 11:58 +0200, Laurent wrote:
>   
>> I don't use my Belgian mirror only by irrational fear that it is not up 
>> to date. Just say me that the Belgian server has no more than few hour 
>> delay, and I'm going to use it.
>>
>> A better communication to the end-user about the delay and quality of 
>> mirrors could maybe help people (like me) to use them. Is there any 
>> statistics about who is using what mirror ?
>>     
>
> Take a look a this page:
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors
> There you'll find the bandwidth and the delay for all mirrors.
>
> Regards
> Simon
>   

That's sort of a nice theory, but unfortunately not actually true in
practice. My experience has been that that page does a really poor job
of detecting when mirrors go out of date - see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad-foundations/+bug/394352

- Evan