In general, it is true that the relationship between geographical distances and transfer speeds is very counter-intuitive.
However, in the special case of servers inside Israel vs. servers outside of Israel, transfers inside Israel are faster than transfers from outside of Israel into Israel. On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 16:46 +0300, Meir Guttman wrote: > And who said that geographically closer equates to "faster"? This is by no > means a fact! > Meir > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > of Omer Zak > Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 4:42 PM > To: Perl in Israel > Subject: Re: [Israel.pm] CPAN Mirror. > > The purpose of mirrors in Israel is not so much to reduce the load on > the existing servers, but to increase download speed by allowing most > Israeli Perl users to download stuff from inside Israel, where the > bandwidth is better. -- Any legal limit to self defense means that there is no right for self defense at all. This is because the aggressors would exploit those legal limits to render their victims totally defenseless. My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
