Bug 4041

Description of problem:

The mirror api currently returns south american mirrors for south american countries. The problem is, that there isn't ISP interconnection between south american countries, so all connections have to go through the US, making the downloads slower. I'm completely sure of this with Colombia, please see this:

This first test is to my current mirror on Brazil:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1689380404.png
Ping: 211ms
Download speed: 3.23Mb/s
Upload speed:   1.02Mb/s

This one is with a Server on US, Florida:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1689383587.png
Ping: 84ms
Download speed: 4.34Mb/s
Upload speed:   1.07Mb/s

As you can see, US server are much faster for Colombia than any south american server. And I'm pretty sure this is the same case for other countries too.

Here's a tracepath for the mirror in Brazil and one on the US:

[mageia@dci-laptop ~]#tracepath mageia.c3sl.ufpr.br
 1:  dci-laptop.local                                      0.167ms pmtu 1500
 1:  192.168.1.1                                           2.489ms 
 1:  192.168.1.1                                           1.394ms 
 2:  Dynamic-IP-186821441.cable.net.co                    22.459ms 
 3:  172.31.252.218                                       12.475ms 
 4:  Static-IP-1901577149.cable.net.co                    19.972ms 
 5:  10.14.14.74                                          75.081ms asymm  9 
 6:  64.86.28.41                                          80.586ms asymm  7 
 7:  216.6.48.6                                           72.911ms asymm  9 
 8:  te1-1.miami14.mia.seabone.net                        94.378ms asymm  7 
 9:  fiu.miami14.mia.seabone.net                          78.967ms asymm 11 
10:  ae4-540-r0-sp.bkb.rnp.br                            183.890ms asymm 11 
11:  xe-2-1-1-3000-r0-pr.bkb.rnp.br                      191.368ms asymm 12 
12:  as10881.pr.ptt.br                                   194.640ms asymm 13 
13:  c3sl-ge-1-5-r2.pop-pr.rnp.br                        192.768ms asymm 14 
14:  sagres.c3sl.ufpr.br                                 194.544ms reached
     Resume: pmtu 1500 hops 14 back 50

As you can see on hop #8, for going to Brazil, the connection reached Miami and then jumped to brazil (through a really loooooong connection).

As a difference, see how's with a US server:

[root@dci-laptop ~]# tracepath mirrors.kernel.org
 1:  dci-laptop.local                                      0.095ms pmtu 1500
 1:  192.168.1.1                                           2.795ms 
 1:  192.168.1.1                                           8.007ms 
 2:  Dynamic-IP-186821441.cable.net.co                    19.685ms 
 3:  172.31.252.218                                       11.916ms 
 4:  190.85.254.25                                        11.592ms 
 5:  10.14.14.74                                          83.221ms asymm  9 
 6:  64.86.28.41                                          70.885ms asymm  7 
 7:  if-5-1343.tcore2.DT8-Dallas.as6453.net              129.371ms asymm 12 
 8:  if-2-2.tcore1.DT8-Dallas.as6453.net                 142.018ms asymm 11 
 9:  64.86.78.5                                          140.796ms 
10:  int-0-2-202.r1.ord1.isc.org                         145.432ms 
11:  int-0-0-1-8.r1.pao1.isc.org                         171.126ms asymm 10 
12:  mirrors2.kernel.org                                 169.823ms reached
     Resume: pmtu 1500 hops 12 back 54 

It has a shorter route and smaller response times.

Also as currently there's only one server in Brazil, when it fails all south american users are screwed (like right now that core/release for that mirror is returning 404 for hdlists).

So what I'm asking if at least Colombia can be mapped to US servers, preferably on the East coast.