Download rate's jumping UP and DOWN by as much as 100KB

[ashrack]

Having some weird problems with the repos lately. When downloading my DL rate is constantly jumping up and now. Here's an example:

Get: 1 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main linux-headers-2.6.15-26 2.6.15-26.46 [6903kB]
16% [1 linux-headers-2.6.15-26 1266880/6903kB 18%] 2604B/s 11m35s

and after half a minute of that slow speed it jumps to this:
Get: 1 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main linux-headers-2.6.15-26 2.6.15-26.46 [6903kB]
19% [1 linux-headers-2.6.15-26 1266880/6903kB 18%] 90kB/s 1m15s
and then again jumps to the slow speeds. I've observed the same behavior on my computer at home and also on a friends computer whose also running UBUNTU-DAPPER.
This sort of strange behaviour only happens with the official REPOS.
BUt with the unofficial repos like QUINNs the download rate is constant!

[meng]

I'd experienced exactly this and assumed it was normal.

[ashrack]

this definetly can't be normal.
Because at times I must wait for 10minutes to download a 10MB packet and it doesnt matter which hour

[ashrack]

any answers to this annomily

[ashrack]

come on no one? Currently am at my friends house and I've been DL 150MB repo update for more than two hours. And the speed is around 2KB/s! And I tried different REPOSITORIES even our local one but they are all the same slow!

He has an ADSL 1024Kb/s! And when we tried DL something from then net the speed was 100KB/s!

What is going with the repos, since now I've had 4reports of this problmem

[ashrack]

I found a solution.Found this unnoficial mirror:
http://ubuntu.uni-klu.ac.at/ubuntu/
And from this one everything works great.

ps. How come the official UBUNTU mirrors are so fubar?

[hikaricore]

ps. How come the official UBUNTU mirrors are so fubar?

My guess would be the thousands of people like myself who compulsively spam "sudo apt-get update" 50 times a day, are kicking the server's ****. lol