India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!?

[Subhro]

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. 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.