the update is very very slow
why
you can see it here
Filename: update/11.0/driverupdate
Client IP address: 41.233.233.123
Found 95 mirrors: 0 country, 1 region, 79 elsewhere
Mirrors in the same country (EG):
Mirrors in the same continent (AF):
http://opensuse.mirror.ac.za/opensuse/update/11.0/driverupdate (score 5)
plzzzzzzzzzz we need other server in egypt and africa
you can see the speed here
I think it might be way more slower than you might expect for someone in Africa, since IIRC wouldn’t a download from, say, Western Europe involve a trip over that extremely long underwater cable that got snipped a while back?
I may have just put my foot in my mouth here, though…
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> I think it might be way more slower than you might expect for someone in
> Africa, since IIRC wouldn’t a download from, say, Western Europe involve
> a trip over that extremely long underwater cable that got snipped a
> while back?
>
> I may have just put my foot in my mouth here, though…
>
>
{Chuckle} I always like to remember that it’s only the FIRST packet that is
slow… the rest are all bumped up behind it in the wires…
Kinda like shoving ping-pong balls through a paper-towel tube… the first
one has to go all the way through, but the second and others are exactly
one ball’s width behind it.
{Smile} Yes, that’s simplistic and you’re likely thinking I’m an idiot…
almost right! But I grew up with heathkit and even a few years tending and
maintaining a nuclear reactor… so yes, I DO know how 'trons work.
> hi
> now all in africa have this problem as me
>
> the update is very very slow
perhaps you could help by maybe contacting the nearest Linux User Group (see http://www.linux.org/groups/) and organizing a search for someone (perhaps a
university) to host a mirror in your country/area…
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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark
