From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 7 17:50:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A07737B402 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 17:50:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from cybertron.tmfweb.nl ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GPLJSG01.UUZ for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 02:50:40 +0100 Message-ID: <3C3A506F.9040604@cybertron.tmfweb.nl> Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 02:50:39 +0100 From: Alfatrion User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: nl, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Restricting Users Geographically References: <20020107222706.GC1093@raggedclown.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:09:04PM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote: > >> >>Actually location of origin isn't as important as # of hops and ping times. >> >>If everyone used the mirrors closest to them in terms of routing (least >>number of hops) then the overall traffic on the internet would be less and >>performance would be improved as a whole. >> >> - Scott >> > > Also measurably interesting is the time of day. If you live in Western > Europe for example 6-9 a.m is a good time for downloads if you need > something from a site in the US, because that is the quietest time on > the internet as a whole. > Doesn't that show in the ping time? A busy site will generly have more ip-packages to handle thus have a longer queue, which in return means a longer waiting time for the ping ip-package. A rating based on the number of hubs and the ping times will make it for the ISP's, as it will encurage ppl to download from site close to them. Basicaly have a option of letting others do the decision of going oversees or not for you. Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message