More one default server by country

[Savvas Radevic]

Why not just let the user choose? You can't beat the human factor :-)

On 5/3/10, Berge Schwebs Bjørlo <berge at trivini.no> wrote:
> On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 01:46:35PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
>> On 3.5.2010, at 11:18, Berge Schwebs Bjørlo <berge at trivini.no> wrote:
>>> Or better yet - it should suggest a server based on some geolocation
>>> data.  There are several providers with free data for geolocation of IP
>>> addresses, as I understand it.
>> That's very bad idea. Network closeness in terms on bandwidth and  latency
>> is not the same as geographic closeness.
>
> Indeed, but I'm suggesting the installer suggests a geographical close
> mirror
> (among the official country-level mirrors) rather than archive.ubuntu.com.
> It
> won't be optimal in all cases, but still probably a lot better default than
> a.u.c, both in terms of bandwith and latency.
>
> -B
>
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> Berge Schwebs Bjørlo
> Alegría!
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