[wellylug] Interesting Ubuntu mirror routing for Telstra cable customers

[Callum Grant]

Yes I found this aswell, but my suspicion was that citylink were just  
being stingy about bandwidth.

We could start a petition for an ubuntu mirror:)

Cheers,

Callum

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On 1/11/2009, at 10:22 AM, Stephen Judd <stephen at vital.org.nz> wrote:

> This is probably not news to people who've been following the NZ  
> peering
> debacle more closely than me, but...
>
> nz.archive.ubuntu.com routes via the US to Citylink.
>
> nz2.archive.ubuntu.com goes via a much shorter local path to a  
> mirror at
> iHug.
>
> So of course using the number 2 mirror improves my update speed by a
> considerable margin.
>
> Having discovered this, my next question is: is there an even better
> Ubuntu mirror for TelstraClear modem users? I know Paradise has a  
> Debian
> mirror, but there doesn't seem to be an Ubuntu one.
>
> Stephen
>
>
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