Using portsnap South East Asia (SEA) gets routed to Australia even though there is a portsnap mirror much closer to SEA in Japan - ec2-ap-northeast-1.portsnap.freebsd.org. This mirror is faster for us in Taiwan or Philippines regardless of ISP. I feel lucky to get 1-2Mbit from the Australian node ec2-ap-southeast-2.portsnap.freebsd.org while I can max 100Mbit connections in Taiwan and get 10+ Mbit in Philippines using the Japanese mirror.
If this is not the correct place to ask for a change in geo-routing for portsnap kindly point me in the right direction to raise this issue.
For people having this issue themselves in Asia or elsewhere - list the portsnap mirrors like this:
FreeBSD 9 or older:
FreeBSD 10 or newer:
Then find your fastest mirror and use the -s option of portsnap to specify a mirror manually - in my case:
If this is not the correct place to ask for a change in geo-routing for portsnap kindly point me in the right direction to raise this issue.
For people having this issue themselves in Asia or elsewhere - list the portsnap mirrors like this:
FreeBSD 9 or older:
dig -t srv _http._tcp.portsnap.FreeBSD.orgFreeBSD 10 or newer:
drill srv _http._tcp.portsnap.FreeBSD.orgThen find your fastest mirror and use the -s option of portsnap to specify a mirror manually - in my case:
portsnap -s ec2-ap-northeast-1.portsnap.freebsd.org fetch