The canadian rsync mirror benow.ca is terribly slow. His information page says that he's on a 10 MPS link, whatever that means, since MPS isn't a valid measurement. I did some checking (on his homepage), and it turns out he's on an ADSL line. I really think there should be some standards imposed as to who can be a mirror and who can not. And I think that ADSL and cable modems should not be allowed. In case anyone is wondering, the fastest transfer rate I've ever received from the benow.ca mirror is 50 KB/s, whereas I routinely receive anywhere from 400-800 KB/s from any of the other mirrors. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Could you be more specific as to a URL for the mirror so I can check it? Thanks! -Jeffrey
I wish I could... the benow.ca web site appears to be down right now. However, I did gather from his homepage (when it was up) that he had moved to telus, the "local monopoly," which offers residential and business flavored DSL lines. Funny thing is, a traceroute to benow.ca puts him as a co-location user of hostcentric.com. I checked their pricing scheme, and the minimum required 5mpbs bandwidth that is needed for a gentoo mirror is around $750/mo. Something makes me doubt if an individual would be paying that... One thing I CAN say for certain is that not only does he not have a 10MPS link to a tier 1 host that his info page says, but that he does not have anywhere close to the 5mbps. Once again I did "emerge sync" until his host came up, and sure enough... 40kB/s. I have nothing against this guy, but as far as I'm concerned having such a terrible mirror on the list only decreases Gentoo's viability as a commercial, or enterprise server solution. The mirrors should be fast, and stable, and not give out adverts for streaming techno, ya? Here's a snippet from the rsync info his host spits out: >>> starting rsync with rsync://209.25.160.104/gentoo-portage... >>> checking server timestamp ... Welcome to mirrors.benow.ca (209.25.160.104) rsync service. Hardware: Celeron 1.7G, 1G RAM, 120M HD Bandwidth: 10MPS to Tier 1 Host Contact: andy@benow.ca Visit benow.ca for streaming techno, ya? receiving file list ...
209.25.160.104 belongs to rsync7.ca.gentoo.org Seems to be behind by 1 sync as well.
The situation is being handled, thanks for the input. For Infrastructure, Jeffrey
