"Select the best server" *never* selects the best server

[Victor Padro]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>wrote:

> Victor Padro wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Ashish Yadav
> > <ashishyadav26 at gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> > I always use ftp.wayne.edu, most of the american universities have a
> nice
> > connection to the internet, so you may check them out.
>
> yes, but Ashish in in India.  Having a nice connection to the Internet at
> the server is only the start - in fact it's almost always better for me to
> use American servers than Canadian, because their pipes are bigger - but
> you also need good connections between the server and your ISP.  I've heard
> that the international connections to India are as good as anywhere in the
> world, so I'd rather suspect that Ashish's problem is at his own ISP.
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Hi Derek, How are you today?

Yes I know he's in India, I am in mexico and if I use the most prestigious
mexican university ubuntu sources to update my system I get about 3KB
download with my 2Mbps ADSL line, and If I use Japan's or even Europe's
servers I can get most of the time 20KB, but then Wayne.edu comes to rescue
me downloading at 198KB, so there's a huge difference between all of the
servers, that's why I offer him/her that possibility.

Take care,

-- 
"It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion."

"Todo el desorden del mundo proviene de las profesiones mal o mediocremente
servidas"
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