Terrible mirroring user experience

[Clint Byrum]

Excerpts from Someone Somebody's message of Sun May 01 12:36:58 -0700 2011:
> Ubuntu has a lot of mirrors but it seems no one has considered that at times
> some mirrors become slow, it's so slow that's it's impossible for me to
> download nor install ubuntu.
> 
> I'm talking about the il.archive.ubuntu.com mirror and the ISOC mirror.
> 
> But the problem here is that there is no option whatsoever to select a
> different mirror to download the iso from nor is it possible to choose a
> mirror to use during install, even if I run in LiveCD mode and change the
> mirror in synaptic's repositories settings the installer ignores them.
> 
> This is really a bad user experience design decision, some mirrors can be
> slow at times and a user should be allowed to switch to a different one in
> such case not be forced to download the iso in other means and skip
> downloading additional packages during installation which I have no idea
> what sort of impact it will have on my installed system.

"Someone", there are *many* ways to download the ISO other than from
your most local mirror. On release day and for a bit of time after the
release, its expected that the mirrors will be slow. Your best bet is
to use a bittorrent client to download the ISO, which should actually
get *faster* with more people downloading, though it will require you
to saturate your upstream connection.

Note that this link is mentioned off the main download page as the
"Alternate Downloads"

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/alternative-download

Once you have the CD, you have all of the default applications. Anything
else may, indeed, be from a very busy mirror. A bit of patience is in
order, as there's not much anybody can do when millions of users decide
to upgrade from the mirrors all on the same day. :)