Aussie download mirrors (was: Re: New Page Idea)
Alan Harper
alan at aussiegeek.net
Fri Oct 20 06:31:20 BST 2006
> On a related note, the very first thing I do after having installed ubuntu, is
> edit sources.list to point to my local (internode) mirrored source so that
> any updating doesn't eat in to my download quota.
>
> Is it all feasible to make this automatic for aussie users. i.e. After
> installing, sources.list points to your isp's mirror if it has one for
> ubuntu.
>
Its not always going to be that clear, I'm with Westnet for example,
there mirror sucks, but I get free PIPE access in my state, and because
of that I get free access to mirror.pacific.net.au or ftp.iinet.com.au
I had to use tracepath to workout what was free
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