Re: feature request: easier "auto select a close mirror for me"

[Jack <ostroffjh at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

On 2015.08.28 14:23, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Roger Pack!
>
> > It would be awesome if the top option for servers were "auto select
> > closest" or something like that.
>
> How would it know where you are located and how do you define  
> "closest"?
> The mirrors that are "close" to me give worst speed comparing to the  
> ones
> across the ocean.

I wouldn't make it part of setup.exe, but a separate tool, like Arch  
Linux's mirrorselect.  It finds the server with the best response, or  
perhaps the best N servers.  Yes, "best response" is subject to  
interpretation, but some combination of low latency and fastest  
download of some (small?) test file, perhaps.

Jack
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