More one default server by country

[Berge Schwebs Bjørlo]

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!