[ubuntu-uk] Downloads slow?

[Alan Pope]

On 22 June 2010 14:07, Gordon <gbplinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> Trying to download 10.04 - EXCRUCIATINGLY slow. Anyone know if there's a
> server problem today?
>

Where you downloading from? Seens fast enough for me from releases.ubuntu.com...

alan at bishop:~$ wget
http://releases.ubuntu.com/10.04/ubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso
--2010-06-22 14:07:57--
http://releases.ubuntu.com/10.04/ubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso
Resolving releases.ubuntu.com... 91.189.92.162, 2001:6b0:e:2018::1337,
2001:7b8:3:37::21:1, ...
Connecting to releases.ubuntu.com|91.189.92.162|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 733419520 (699M) [application/x-iso9660-image]
Saving to: `ubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso'

16% [=======>                                        ] 124,235,183
5.60M/s  eta 4m 51s

Cheers,
Al.