[arch-general] [mirrorlist] Remove ftp mirrors from the default list

[Abdul Halim Mat Ali]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:07 PM, gt <codered12 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:06:49AM +0800, Abdul Halim Mat Ali wrote:
> > I don't find download small files is slow especially when the mirror is
> at
> > your country.
> > Furthermore, my country namely Singapore only have one mirror and that
> one
> > mirror using FTP.
> >
> > Arch-devs. Kindly do not delete FTP from the list.
> > The mirrors list are user config and not everybody use the same mirror
> and
> > it is up to us
> > to use which mirror. So, I don't see a point on remove the ftp mirrors.
>
> Well i would like to point out that, you have indonesia, taiwan, japan
> servers near you. And they support http. Japan's jaist.ac.jp is one of
> the best servers i have tried.
>
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gt. None is as fast as my country mirror.
I have already inform mirror-admin at oss.eznetsols.org.
Hopefully, they will do something.
Meanwhile, Arch-devs, kindly do not push the mirror list to remove the FTP
mirrors so soon. :-)

Regards.
Halim