India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!?

[W. D.]

At 08:20 4/14/2005, Subhro, wrote:
>Anthony Atkielski wrote:
>
>>All the more reason to have a mirror in India.  The shorter the distance
>>to cover, the faster the transfer is likely to be,
>>
>
>This is definitely technically true but not practially as far as India 
>is concern. The average bandwidth available to individual is 56Kbps 
>(actual, not the rated). A few lucky souls DO have access to high speed 
>links in the range of ~1Mbps but that is truly not the mass. So as far 
>as transfer rate is concerned, the bottleneck is definitely not the 
>physical location of the source.
>
>> and the lower the
>>cost.
>>
>
>This also is not applicable is here. Having spent quite some time in US, 
>I am well aware of the fact that for many ISPs, data tranferred within 
>the local uplink is free. However this is not the case here. Firstly as 
>most users access internet on dialup, they do not have any data 
>restrictions. 

Hmmm.  Does 'they do not have any data restrictions' mean that
the aren't charged by the megabyte?  If so, there is a Windows
program called FreeDownloadManager that can *reliably* download
huge files.  In the case of ISOs, it could take many days
on dialup, but you can start or stop, regulate download speed, 
etc.:
http://www.FreeDownloadManager.org/features.htm



>The people who *do* have a fat downlink would pay equally 
>for data transferred from an Indian server or from an American Server.
>
>>Additionally, a mirror site in India could burn CDs locally and hand
>>them out, subject to licensing restrictions.
>>  
>>
>This is really a wonderful idea. It never struck to me. Even without 
>going in for a online mirror, I can take initiative and execute this. 
>Thanks Anthony. I would also request the concerned person to kindly let 
>me know how I can get listed on the FreeBSD Handbook.
>
>Best Regards,
>S.

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