Why is updating so slow?

[Homer]

Thanks for the comments.  One thing I'm sure of it is not the
connection at my end.  Government lab with connections to the abilene
backbone.  I wish I could choose my mirror with (K)ubuntu like I do on
all my Debian installs.  With Debian I can pick a close university or
gov lab on the Abilene network and the connection is always amazing.
With (K)ubuntu you get what you get.  Maybe I'm wrong on this though,
as I can't claim to have done an exhaustive search on ubuntu mirrors.

On 1/23/07, anthony baldwin <anthonybaldwin at optonline.net> wrote:
> Gary Hodges wrote:
>
> >I have an incredible connection at work.  Updating 100-200 MB is
> >painfull.  Not in a 56k sense, but it takes way longer than it should.
> > The download speed is never constant either.  It will go from snail
> >to blazing and back to snail.  Rinse and repeat.  As an example, time
> >to completion will range from 5+ hours to 50 seconds depending at what
> >part of the cycle I'm on.
> >
> >
> >
> Likely depends on traffic, bandwidth issues at either end,
> how many users are accessing the same files or repository at the same
> moment...that kind of thing.
>
> tony
>
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