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

Sat Dec 22 10:51:10 IST 2018

Hi,

On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 19:03, Amey Abhyankar <sco1984 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>
>
I am using google dns, here's a traceroute but from within windows, it is
for the garr.it italian mirror which gives me full 100 mbps speeds and it
is also the ubuntu official italian mirror at it.archive.ubuntu.com :-)

Windows PowerShell
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PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> .\TRACERT.EXE fedora.mirror.garr.it

Tracing route to proxy.mirror.garr.it [90.147.160.73]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  10.0.0.1
  2     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  jiofi.local.html [192.168.1.1]
  3     2 ms     2 ms     1 ms  103.77.240.1
  4     2 ms     2 ms     2 ms  218.248.164.97
  5     2 ms     2 ms     2 ms  218.248.164.114
  6     6 ms     5 ms     7 ms  218.248.235.197
  7     *        5 ms     *     218.248.235.198
  8     5 ms     8 ms     4 ms  115.113.165.93.static-mumbai.vsnl.net.in
[115.113.165.93]
  9    43 ms     8 ms     5 ms  172.23.78.233
 10     5 ms     4 ms     5 ms  ix-ae-0-100.tcore1.mlv-mumbai.as6453.net
[180.87.38.5]
 11   107 ms   108 ms   107 ms  if-ae-5-2.tcore1.wyn-marseille.as6453.net
[80.231.217.29]
 12   107 ms   108 ms   107 ms  if-ae-8-1600.tcore1.pye-paris.as6453.net
[80.231.217.6]
 13   107 ms   107 ms   110 ms  if-ae-11-2.tcore1.pvu-paris.as6453.net
[80.231.153.49]
 14   108 ms   107 ms   108 ms  be6453.ccr31.par04.atlas.cogentco.com
[130.117.15.69]
 15   111 ms   110 ms   110 ms  be3183.ccr41.par01.atlas.cogentco.com
[154.54.38.65]
 16   125 ms   125 ms   125 ms  be3092.ccr21.mrs01.atlas.cogentco.com
[130.117.49.154]
 17   128 ms   128 ms   128 ms  be3635.rcr51.goa01.atlas.cogentco.com
[130.117.1.42]
 18   133 ms   133 ms   133 ms  be3575.rcr51.rom01.atlas.cogentco.com
[154.54.57.65]
 19   132 ms   132 ms   132 ms  149.6.22.74
 20   138 ms   137 ms   138 ms  rx2-rm2-rx2-bo1.bo1.garr.net [90.147.80.34]
 21   149 ms   149 ms   148 ms  rx2-bo1-rx2-ba1.ba1.garr.net [90.147.80.2]
 22   149 ms   149 ms   148 ms  193.206.134.42
 23   149 ms   149 ms   149 ms  193.206.134.66
 24   149 ms   148 ms   148 ms  90.147.160.73

Trace complete.
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32>

> >
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > "The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." -
> St. Augustine.
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> Regards,
> Amey.
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