Official Australian Ubuntu "apt" Mirror ?

[Dan M]

Optus also has a mirror: http://mirror.optus.net/ubuntu/

I'm on Optus cable and updates are lightening fast. Not sure how up to 
date it is though.

cheers,
Daniel Morrison
(former lurker)


Blake Munro wrote:
> This explains why my speeds dropped from 750k/sec (straight via WAIX
> over my 8mbit DSL connection) to a poor 120k/sec a few weeks ago.
>
> You can point your repos to http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/ubuntu and there
> is a full mirror here that is kept fairly up to date.
>
> Cheers
> Blake
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-au-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:ubuntu-au-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Shugg
> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 5:35 PM
> To: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Official Australian Ubuntu "apt" Mirror ?
>
> Peter Garrett said:
>   
>> I noticed some time ago that the au.archive.ubuntu.com mirror has
>>     
> reverted
>   
>> to pointing at  archive.ubuntu.com .
>>
>> Does anyone know why this has reverted? Is UWA unable to handle the
>> bandwidth?
>>     
>
> I don't think there was any kind of official announcement, but I did
> hear that the server at UWA ran out of disk space, couldn't carry the
> entire mirror any more (as well as all the Debian stuff they have) so
> they arranged with Canonical for the DNS record to be changed away.
>
> I'd meant to find out more about it a month ago and inform the list, my
> apologies folks.
>
> Andrew.
>
>