Why is updating so slow?

[neil.linux]

Homer wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
I'm glad I could help. Let us all know how the updates go.

Neil
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