305392 - Allow app update from regional server

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050821
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005082100

Currently the app update seems to download from the Oregon University server only.
For people in other areas in the world this means a very slow update.

Oregon downloads tops at ~20kb/s while most of the European mirror (my region)
easily reach 300kb/s ++

Maybe the Software Update dialog could include an option from which region the
user wishes to download its update

Comment 1

[Ben Basson]

It would be better to just pick intelligently based on IP or something.

Comment 2

[alanjstr]

Updates should go through Bouncer which directs you to an appropriate mirror.

Comment 3

[Ben Turner (not reading bugmail, use the needinfo flag!)]

chase, morgamic: this has been fixed, correct?

Comment 4

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

These days release updates go thru download.mozilla.org (bouncer), while nightly updates now come from a different single machine (ftp.m.o). The current setup doesn't allow nightly updates to come from the pool of mirrors because they don't carry the {firefox,thunderbird}/nightly directories.

Comment 5

[alanjstr]

Does bouncer pick by region?