Why is updating so slow?

[Homer]

On 1/25/07, neil.linux <neil.linux at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Homer wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> If you have a mirror in mind and it has the repositories you need why no
> just edit  /etc/apt/sources.list and change the url to the mirror?

I guess because I didn't realize that I could select my own mirror.  I
always looked at the ubuntu sources file and saw the generic
"us.archive.ubuntu.com" and figured that was the site.  Anyway, I've
now selected a specific site that should work well for me.