[ulyssesric]

I live in Taiwan. Every time when I try to download Kodi release, the mirror service will redirect me to some server in .CN domain, which is mainland China. I won't discuss politics here but the truth is: there is NO direct routing path between Taiwan and China. All packets, I mean EVERY packets, will be routed to west coast of United State first. As a result, internet speed between Taiwan and China is HORRIBLY slow. When I tried to download 15.2 RC 3 a few hours ago, the average download speed is 10Kbyte/sec. Yes you read it right, 10 KILO bytes per seconds. It takes HOURS to download. In the end, I've managed to download it from mirrorservice.org, and the average download speed is 1Mbytes/sec. 100 times faster than the mirror server in .CN domain.

So please, PLEASE, *STOP* redirect any connections from Taiwan to any mirror server in .CN domain. Mirror server in Japan (.JP), Australia (.AU) or United State is best suited for Taiwan users.

[Ned Scott]

Thanks for the heads up. I wonder if there are other countries with the same issue that don't have a direct connection to China.

[ulyssesric]

Could somebody please follow this post ?

This is the download speed following your direct download link (which redirected me to some server in mainland China)


And this is the download speed following the same download link through a proxy located in United State.


IT'S NOT A JOKE!

[wsnipex]

easily said, not so easy to fix. We depend on the geoip DB to deliver the best mirror for a given IP. Changing that manually will break next upgrade.
Best would be to have a mirror in taiwan.

[jjd-uk]

You can get the complete mirrorlist by appending ?mirrorlist is any download link URL.

So for above

Code:

http://mirrors.xbmc.org/releases/osx/x86_64/kodi-15.2-Isengard-x86_64.dmg

becomes

Code:

http://mirrors.xbmc.org/releases/osx/x86_64/kodi-15.2-Isengard-x86_64.dmg?mirrorlist

[ulyssesric]

You can get the complete mirrorlist by appending ?mirrorlist is any download link URL.

So for above

Code:

http://mirrors.xbmc.org/releases/osx/x86_64/kodi-15.2-Isengard-x86_64.dmg

becomes

Code:

http://mirrors.xbmc.org/releases/osx/x86_64/kodi-15.2-Isengard-x86_64.dmg?mirrorlist

OK that's acceptable. Thanks for the solution.