Looking for fast local repositories

**monkey.eat(banana)** · February 5th, 2007

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** · February 6th, 2007

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** · February 6th, 2007

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

**mips** · February 8th, 2007

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** · June 11th, 2007

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!!!