[wellylug] Interesting Ubuntu mirror routing for Telstra cable customers

[Peter Lambrechtsen]

On 1/11/2009, at 10:28 AM, Callum Grant <callum.el.grant at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> 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:)

It's more likely Telstra refusing to peer with citylink unless they  
get paid for it. Like the madness that was trademe used to go via the  
us for Wgtn tcl cable customers. Since strangely enough cusomers  
wouldn't expect to get charged traffic for such local peering.. But  
tcl's gotta get paid!

If you want to petion anyone it should be tcl.. And better yet ask for  
it to be free traffic.

But they make Tui billboards about these sorts of things.


>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Callum
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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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