[PLUG] Which fast (Indian) mirror for Fedora? (Like PicoNets)

Amey Abhyankar sco1984 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 21 19:02:13 IST 2018


Hello,

On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 at 18:16, Vishal Rao <vishalrao at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations for a fast repo mirror for Fedora?
>
> I'm running Fedora 29 Workstation and have BSNL's FTTH 100 mbps connection which I'd like to take full advantage of with a good fast repo mirror.

1) What are the DNS IP's you have? i.e. Google DNS or DNS from BSNL?
2) Can you put traceroute result here for any of the mirror?

>
> The default meta mirror list with the DNF fastestmirror option enabled does not work well for me.
>
> I tried many of the mirrors listed on https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ and currently settled on http://mirror.switch.ch/ or at least some of the related mirrors listed on switch.ch (the switch mirror itself is apparently closed down).
>
> These only seem to hover around 20-50 mbps speeds for me, so still looking for better options.
>
> If you folks remember PicoNets (it currently has ubuntu mirror which is fast) it is also listed on the fedora mirror list webpage but it currently is not uptodate. I pinged Prakash (the founder) on linkedin and he mentioned he will try to look for someone to revive the mirror, so hopefully that will be a good option :-)
>
It is unstable i.e. http://mirrors.piconets.webwerks.in/ubuntu/ or not
working anymore for example.
> But in the meantime I wanted to know if anyone is using a fast mirror that works well?
>
> Regards,
> Vishal
>
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Regards,
Amey.


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