Comments on: Fx 3.0.7 release & this morning’s network performance issues

By: Gen Kanai

Gen Kanai — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:05:03 +0000

Also, the comment that I get most often from mirrors is for Bouncer to have more targeted geo-location capability. I know it is being worked on but the sooner we can serve local users with local mirrors, wherever they are in the world, the happier and cheaper it will be for those mirrors who have committed to supporting Mozilla. Whatever we can do to fast-track this will be a big win for both the user and the mirror.

By: Gen Kanai

Gen Kanai — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:00:53 +0000

I’ve been working hard to get new mirrors in Asia for many months with some good success, but it’s a long and involved process and takes time and effort and knowing the right people. I think the current documentation that we have is adequate but pretty basic. Perhaps we might want to think about revising the documentation to better highlight that we want more mirrors and how to easily become a mirror? Also, perhaps we can brainstorm as to where we should go to look for more mirrors. I’m going through my contacts, but it’s ad-hoc and I’m pretty sure that there’s better places to be looking or asking for help that I don’t know about.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:28:10 +0000

The thought of sending GB after GB of identical data down the same tubes sometimes makes me cringe. A better kind of multicast support would be nice, but I’m not seeing it coming from anywhere.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:48:15 +0000

See if you can use Peer 2 Peer services, behind the scenes. Modify your update scripts to first check BitTorrent (it gets a .torrent tracker when it checks for updates), then to maybe another P2P network. If the download is too slow, try a different method. Vuze/Azureus uses P2P to download updates for their product, and they are always fast, unlike much of the other content available on bitTorrent.

By: mrz

mrz — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:20:02 +0000

NetVMG.

By: Stephen Donner

Stephen Donner — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:12:06 +0000

Is FCP the stuff they acquired from NetVMG or Sockeye?