MacPorts rsync server in Germany - is this the current "normal"?

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Aug 7, 2016, at 5:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> It decides this based on lowest ping time. This is not necessarily 100% reliable: it's possible for a server to respond quickly to pings but slowly to actual file transfers.

If this is true for any of our mirror sites, they shouldn't be mirror sites.

Mirrors should have adequate bandwith to push data, so the determining factor in transfer speed is going to be the rtt (see also tcp bandwith-delay product).

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Daniel J. Luke