Comment 7 for bug 140458

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Agostino Russo (ago) wrote :

One last request: the metalink file is generated from a list of mirrors (text file) and an ISO. I would appreciate if the top part of the mirrors list could contain reasonably fast mirrors (possibly 1 or 2 for the main countries). This is simply to go around the limitations of the current Wubi builtin downloader without affecting overall metalink functionality and scope. In particular, there were a lot of complaints in the past about very slow download speeds since the wubi downloader is not smart enough to adjust accordingly (things will change in the future). "Sorting" the mirror list text file (even manually and in a completely unscientific way) would improve the user experience without requiring any code change and without much impact on the server loads (servers would be picked by country first and then randomly).