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Bug 317927

Summary:	Download mirror should be chosen by geographical location, not by country
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Evgeny Kapun <abacabadabacaba>
Component:	Website	Assignee:	phoenix.ui <phoenix.ui-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Evgeny Kapun

2010-06-25 04:08:17 EDT

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Currently eclipse.org prefers download mirror which is in the same country as a user. I tried to download Eclipse from Saint Petersburg, Russia, and I was offered to use a mirror at Tomsk, which is far away and has poor bandwidth, instead of better mirror somewhere in Europe.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to download Eclipse from somewhere far from mirrors in the same country but near a mirror in a different country.
2. Wrong mirror is chosen.

Comment 1 Denis Roy

2011-04-06 15:31:13 EDT

That level of granularity is not available in our geo databases.  In any case, it is almost certain to be wrong in some cases -- the mirror server across the street from you could be the closest, geographically, but there is no guarantee that it is the fastest.