Suggestion

When one clicks download The user should be able to choose a mirror that
is closest to them if there are multiple mirrors that are geographically
close to the user, or if there is a way to detect a bogged down server
which is recieving lots of downloads, when the download button is
pressed could an alternative mirror be automatically chosen.

the mirror I downloaded form was an italian one gerrit.it mirror and I
noticed 1 thing.

First attempt at downloading i was getting speeds of about 18kbps. I
cancelled the download and restarted again and it started at 780kbps and
started slowing down. I have included the mirrors list in this email too.

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Hello,

Jonathan Aquilina wrote on 2012-06-22 13:07:
> When one clicks download The user should be able to choose a mirror that
> is closest to them if there are multiple mirrors that are geographically
> close to the user, or if there is a way to detect a bogged down server
> which is recieving lots of downloads, when the download button is
> pressed could an alternative mirror be automatically chosen.

normally, our MirrorBrain instance automatically chooses the best
mirror. However, you can always manually select a mirror by going to
http://download.documentfoundation.org, selecting the file and clicking
on "details". Then you will see a list of all available mirrors for the
particular file.

Maybe we can add this information to the download page.

Florian

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Hi Jonathan, *,

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Jonathan Aquilina
<[hidden email]> wrote:
> [...]
> or if there is a way to detect a bogged down server which is
> recieving lots of downloads,

Unfortunately there is no way to detect a bogged down server before
redirecting the user to that mirror.

But there is the possibility to reduce the score of a mirror, so it
will be used less often.

> First attempt at downloading i was getting speeds of about 18kbps. I
> cancelled the download and restarted again and it started at 780kbps and
> started slowing down.

See - hard to impossible to tell before redirecting the user to the mirror.

Benchmarking mirrors for transfer speed is hard though, as it depends
on so many factors. Testing from TDF servers can give much different
results from actual users from the region the mirror is meant for...

I'll think of adding a "slow mirror" link or similar..

ciao
Christian

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