decent ubuntu mirror

[daven1986]

why is there no decent mirror - i only get about 400kbps MAX and all my other downloads go at about 2000kbps.

so my question is, which mirror is the best?

thanks

daven

 

[BillytheImpaler]

bittorrent. I download at 3 MiB/s (24600ish kb/s).

 

[GarethDW]

I've always found the Oxford University mirror to be fastest for me.

http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/releases.ubuntu.com/releases/

 

[brummie]

http://ubuntu.virginmedia.com/ gives me a constant 2400kb/s

 

[daven1986]

i tried the virgin media one and that was rubbish, so i will try the oxford one today.

thanks guys

daven

 

[riddlermarc]

definitely try the torrents for a decent speed

 

[brummie]

i tried the virgin media one and that was rubbish, so i will try the oxford one today.

thanks guys

daven

they are my ISP though

 

[GarethDW]

they are my ISP though

Same here... I wish that downloading stuff from their mirrors wouldn't count towards my daily cap. It's effectively not costing them anything for me to download from their servers, yet I can very easily go over my limit and have my speed dropped frmo 20Mb to 1Mb or whatever it is, because I've donwloaded a DVD ISO from their own mirror.

Oxford is still faster for me than VM in any case, so it's probably a moot point.

 

[Gemok]

I'm downloading ubuntu at the moment and all the mirrors are rubbish for me too, but my flashget version 1.8.2.1001 lets you have multiple urls for each download (later versions don't seem to?) so I'm downloading from 10 rubbish servers which makes for fairly decent speed
Now all I have to do is get linux to work on my lappy

 

[swinnie]

If you have a download cap, just order the discs for free from the Ubuntu site, took about 2 Weeks from Ilse of Man down to me in South East nearish Dover.

https://shipit.ubuntu.com/

Can take up to 10 Weeks.

 

[Outcast]

10 weeks..

that would just about right for the Hardy Heron release then.

/Me orders on shipit.

 

[zetec452]

I always use http://ubuntu.datahop.it