Looking for fast local repositories

[monkey.eat(banana)]

Hi guys

Anybody know of any fast local repositories? The IS one, za.archive.ubuntu.com (that resolves to storeroom.is.co.za), is waay too slow for large upgrades.

Cheers,
m.e(b)

[Circus-Killer]

to be honest, whenever za repos are giving me hassles, i just drop the "za." prefex, and use the main mirrors. also the us and uk mirrors usually give decent speeds.

[diepruis]

The za repos work fine for me. Are you sure it's not a DNS issue? Telkom's DNS servers are notoriously slow...

[mips]

I just look at the saix networks international peering points and then test the speed of the mirrors in that country and then decide which ones to use.

[theorem_hunter]

well all my repose have za in front of them & i hope i can still get upgrades & so on because in less than 12 hours i will be hard capped for the rest of the month & will have to rely on my 30G local only openweb account!!!

[dariusdwtt]

why not just choose the "best server" option and it'll find the best one...?

[drubin]

Originally Posted by dariusdwtt why not just choose the "best server" option and it'll find the best one...?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...14&postcount=1

In the synaptic package manager I chose "best server for me" in the source chooser thingy, and it made it Botswana??? Is this a Telkom thing?

Reason?