[plug] gentoo progress

[W.Kenworthy]

I find this option good in theory, but not much good in practice (doesnt
take into account reliability, and end-to-end bandwidth appears to vary
greatly - there's no guarantee tht it will be as fast tomorrow).  I get
better results using a manual selection.

My current ones are:
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.averse.net/pub/gentoo/
http://gentoo.gg3.net/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/"



On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 14:50 -0700, WolfBite wrote:
> mirrorselect -D -s 5 -o >> /etc/make.conf
> 
> will download a 100k test file from each the servers and save the best
> 5 (or how many you want)
> can take awhile but get the best results (30 min max on mine)
>  
> 99% of times I dload @> 150K
>  
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>