The download via a bouncer link like http://download.openoffice.org/ is slow
when the bouncer selects geographically far mirrors. As it stands now, the
bouncer seems to select mirrors randomly without consideration of geographical
distance between mirrors and users. In my personal experience, the bouncer never
selects mirrors in Japan despite ten or more downloads of OOo Japanese edition.

Identifying the geographical location of downloading clients may be difficult,
but localization information may help solving this problem. Most people who want
to download a localized versions live in a certain region, I think. For example,
the people who want to download OOo Japanese version mostly live in Japan.
Therefore, in the case of Japanese localized edition, the bouncer should give
high priority to mirrors in Japan and give low priority to mirrors in the other
side of the globe . For some languages like Portuguese and Spanish which are
spoken in some separate regions, the bouncer should select mirrors not in Asia
regions by giving them low priority and this priority control avoid at least
downloading from extraneous regions.

This solution may help reducing much download time of localized versions except
world wide languages like English.