[osgeo4w-dev] [osgeo4w] #857: Perform initial speed test for the selected sources

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#857: Perform initial speed test for the selected sources
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Reporter:  Chau         |      Owner:  osgeo4w-dev@…
    Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
Priority:  minor        |  Component:  Installer
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 Hi Jürgen

 When I run the OSGeo4w setup I can select between 3 different sources:

 - OSGeo
 - OSUOSL
 - Norbit

 I guess the first two are in the US and yours are of course in Germany.
 When I select all three sources it seems like it uses the first source if
 available and download everything from there. Sometimes this works just
 fine but at other times downloading everything from the US to me in
 Denmark is very slow (at around 200-250kb/s compared to 1-2MB/s from
 Germany). With downloads like the `proj-data` the difference in transfer
 speed does matter.
 I could just select your Norbit source (and that is normally my solution)
 but I guess that this removes the redundancy in case your site should be
 down (I haven't seen that though).

 Would it be possible to implement a simple speed test towards the selected
 sources and then choose the source with the best transfer rate before
 downloading the request packages?

 Kind regards,
 Casper
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/857>
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