[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu mirror bandwidth (was: Re: Hardy available now)

[Stephen O'Neill]

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Chris Oattes wrote:
| it takes longer for the necessary
| number of mirrors to get a copy because you steal their bandwidth

Speaking of bandwidth... in the podcast Shuttleworth said that
the London mirror has capacity for 14GiB/s throughput, so almost 2GB/s
... that sounds like a hugely impressive amount of bandwidth to me, and
even more impressive that it's offered 'free' to end users like me.

It presumably also explains why updating ubuntu with patches each week
is so painless - they download really quickly (temporarily maxing out my
8mbps ADSL line every time) and obviously apt installs fast too.

Just out of interest what do people with more networking knowledge think
to 14GiB - will that have a lot of spare as the ubuntu user base grows?

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Stephen O'Neill
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