[86151] trunk/dports/audio/liblo/Portfile

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Oct 22, 2011, at 4:44 AM, Joshua Root wrote:
>> We actually should probably just let the sourceforge redirect do it's 'magic' and fallback to pinging sites and selecting a mirror from the list only if there's a problem with the main site (it's very likely that it can do a better job than we can of directing people to an appropriate server).
> 
> I find it does a considerably worse job. I'll often get a mirror on the
> other side of the country and relatively poor download speeds when going
> through the redirector, whereas pinging selects a local server and I get
> 3-4 times the throughput.


actual data trumps my intuition that they're doing a better job, so I guess it makes sense to continue without preferring the redirector.

realistically, as long as all of the individual mirrors have good connectivity (and availability) going with the lowest latency server is going to give the best throughput anyway ...

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