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tiglionabbit
July 3rd, 2008, 08:21 PM
When I go to ubuntu.com, I have to choose a mirror to download it from! That's silly. Places like SourceForge.net have had mirror balancers for years. How much work would it take to implement something similar on ubuntu.com?

benefits:
1) takes away a meaningless choice the user shouldn't have to make
2) results in a generally faster download speed, since all the servers would be balanced

Now, I've never really done something like this before, but balancer (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6355) sort of looks like a solution.

Trail
July 4th, 2008, 07:40 AM
Who cares...

Besides, I don't mind explicitly chosing to download from Greece (my country), even if it's a little slower.