Proposed Repositories - GPG errors

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Sat, 10/31/09, David Curtis <dcurtis at uniserve.com> wrote:

> From: David Curtis <dcurtis at uniserve.com>
> Subject: Re: Proposed Repositories - GPG errors
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Saturday, October 31, 2009, 9:33 AM
> On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:00:20 -0700
> NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > On 10/30/2009 06:30 PM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > ...
> > > 
> > > Let software sources pick the best server for
> you.  Ever since I
> > > did that it downloads fast with no errors. 
> Don't even know where
> > > it is as it just has an IP address.  Whois
> says it's FDCservers.net
> > > in Chicago.
> > 
> > Right... I've done that in the past & end up with
> a server in the
> > Ukraine or some other place half way around the world
> from my location
> > in California. Decided to test again & just now it
> selected
> > mirrors.us.kernel.org so that's not so bad. :-)
> 
> Meh, It's just a latency and/or short-time-frame bandwidth
> test. Not
> going to tell you about the load capabilities of the site.
> Take a look
> at the mirror list...
> 
> 

> 
> Dave
> 
NoOp and I are both aware of what you say.  But I can only tell you that
after some days of use I'm still getting the fastest download rates from a
mirror than I ever had. It may not be the most up to date site but I'm getting Karmic updates almost every day.  You may want to check out:
http://76.73.4.58/ubuntu/
It may be some fluke but until it slows down significantly I'll continue to use it.  Now that I've posted the mirror site, it probably will-:o)
BTW, the site is in Chicago and I live in southeast Texas and the site at Uinv. of Texas is not near as fast and is many times not up-to-date. FWIW.
I get 300+ kB/sec download rates, as exactly shown on konsole, consistently and before my best rate was only 200 or so kB/sec.
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net