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  • @TheHackBox said: Well I guess I can get back on topic, Ubuntu's mirrors are being really slow today :/

    Have you tried torrenting it?

  • @Kairus said: Have you tried torrenting it?

    I was doing a netinstall and it took forever even with the little packages.

  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    @TheHackBox said: I was doing a netinstall and it took forever even with the little packages.

    If it's within buyvm you can just use mirrors.buyvm.net

    Francisco

  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran
    edited April 2012

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    EDIT - WATTA JUAN DOLLA

    Francisco

  • @Francisco said: If it's within buyvm you can just use mirrors.buyvm.net

    Nah it was at home. Also I learned that apparently the Canada mirror of Ubuntu is actually in London.

  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    @TheHackBox said: Nah it was at home. Also I learned that apparently the Canada mirror of Ubuntu is actually in London.

    That's going to piss off the canadiens again.

    I'm thinking about uncapping our mirror to 10Mbit/sec.

    :3

    Francisco

  • I couldn't connect to pptp vpn since version 11.10,upgraded to 12.04 but still not work.Does anyone encountered the same problem?

  • DerekDerek Member

    @Francisco said: I'm thinking about uncapping our mirror to 10Mbit/sec.

    Cap it down to 1KB/s down. :P

    But all serious, you should donate to the community with 100MB/s. I'm sure you can even make a donate button "To keep bandwidth moving".

  • @Derek said: But all serious, you should donate to the community with 100MB/s.

    With all the LET/LEBer's with extra VPSes just sitting there idling, we could probably all torrent a few distro's ISO's and speed things up for everyone :).

  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    @Derek said: But all serious, you should donate to the community with 100MB/s. I'm sure you can even make a donate button "To keep bandwidth moving".

    That's actually not a bad idea. I'll run it by the guys.

    Francisco

  • @DotVPS said: Yeah! PM me with a link to the .torrent file :)

    I'll just post it here in case anyone else wants to as well: http://releases.ubuntu.com/precise/ not sure which version is the most popular, probably desktop x64.

  • Anyone here able to open the ISO on Mac?
    This is sucks:

    image

    I'm too lazy to read the entire google page

  • @TheHackBox said: Also I learned that apparently the Canada mirror of Ubuntu is actually in London.

    If it makes you any happier:

    root@de:/# traceroute us.archive.ubuntu.com
    traceroute to us.archive.ubuntu.com (91.189.92.151), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
     1  64.250.116.1 (64.250.116.1)  0.395 ms  0.402 ms  0.411 ms
     2  64.250.112.141 (64.250.112.141)  0.264 ms  0.268 ms  0.235 ms
     3  1207.tge9-4.ar2.ord1.us.scnet.net (204.93.151.217)  0.618 ms  0.684 ms  0.749 ms
     4  ae3-80.cr2.ord1.us.nlayer.net (69.31.111.5)  0.351 ms  0.316 ms  0.334 ms
     5  ae2-30g.ar1.ord1.us.nlayer.net (69.31.111.138)  5.680 ms  3.283 ms  2.087 ms
     6  fa-9-12.r00.chcgil09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (128.242.186.129)  0.816 ms  0.746 ms  0.963 ms
     7  ae-7.r20.chcgil09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.4.145)  0.651 ms  0.501 ms  0.608 ms
     8  ae-4.r23.nycmny01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.41)  27.354 ms  21.774 ms  21.785 ms
     9  ae-0.r22.nycmny01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.72)  21.733 ms  28.745 ms  27.150 ms
    10  as-1.r22.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.255)  97.001 ms  91.402 ms  93.135 ms
    11  ae-1.r02.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.5.25)  90.342 ms  107.364 ms  92.060 ms
    12  te1-2-cr0.thn.uk.as6908.net.48.130.213.in-addr.arpa (213.130.48.102)  95.523 ms  104.779 ms  104.010 ms
    13  canonical-gw.datahop.net (78.41.155.186)  97.639 ms  95.687 ms  97.636 ms
    14  haetae.canonical.com (91.189.92.151)  103.216 ms  94.296 ms  97.514 ms
    

    It's not some nefarious master plan but just some kind of load-balancing to Canonical HQ's servers for the 12.04 release.

  • Londen could be some secret place in USA ;-)

  • ramnetramnet Member, Host Rep
    edited April 2012

    @TheHackBox @quirkyquark @rds100

    When I last asked someone with Canonical about it, they said no mirror in the US is capable of handling the load Ubuntu has when they make a release.

    Even the ANL US mirror setup a demo (which has 10gbps connectivity) fell over when they tried it a few years ago.

    Right now, Ubuntu USA needs about 30gbps during the couple weeks after each release. This is more network capacity than all the major US OSS mirrors have combined.

    This is why Canonical runs these mirrors themselves for USA instead of using the existing free OSS mirror network. And even then they can barely handle the load.

    us.archive.ubuntu.com. 423 IN A 91.189.88.25
    us.archive.ubuntu.com. 423 IN A 91.189.88.26
    us.archive.ubuntu.com. 423 IN A 91.189.88.28
    us.archive.ubuntu.com. 423 IN A 91.189.88.29
    us.archive.ubuntu.com. 423 IN A 91.189.92.151
    us.archive.ubuntu.com. 423 IN A 91.189.92.152
    us.archive.ubuntu.com. 423 IN A 91.189.92.153
    us.archive.ubuntu.com. 423 IN A 91.189.92.154
    us.archive.ubuntu.com. 423 IN A 91.189.92.170
    us.archive.ubuntu.com. 423 IN A 91.189.92.176
    us.archive.ubuntu.com. 423 IN A 91.189.92.177
    us.archive.ubuntu.com. 423 IN A 91.189.92.179
    us.archive.ubuntu.com. 423 IN A 91.189.92.180
    us.archive.ubuntu.com. 423 IN A 91.189.92.181
    us.archive.ubuntu.com. 423 IN A 91.189.92.182
    us.archive.ubuntu.com. 423 IN A 91.189.92.183
    us.archive.ubuntu.com. 423 IN A 91.189.92.184
    us.archive.ubuntu.com. 423 IN A 91.189.88.22
    us.archive.ubuntu.com. 423 IN A 91.189.88.23

    That's 19gbps just for the US/CA from Canonical. Before you count the mirror load on the free mirror servers hosted in the US (the 3 biggest being mirror.anl.gov (10gbps) mirror.pnl.gov (10gbps) and mirror.us.leaseweb.net (4gbps) along with a dozen or so 1&2gbps mirrors.

  • @ramnet : immensely fascinating tale, thanks for telling!

    Funnily enough, the New Zealand mirrors for both Ubuntu and Debian are actually in California and even now, very lightly loaded ;)

  • ramnetramnet Member, Host Rep
    edited April 2012

    @quirkyquark said: New Zealand mirrors for both Ubuntu and Debian are actually in California and even now, very lightly loaded ;)

    Most of the smaller mirrors would tend to be.

    The unofficial mirrors are also usually lightly loaded. I usually use http://mirrors.xmission.com/ since it seems almost nobody uses it. They have the Ubuntu 12.04 archive + iso's on there now.

    BTW, Unofficial Ubuntu NZ mirrors: ftp://ftp.citylink.co.nz/ and ftp://ucmirror.canterbury.ac.nz/ubuntu/

    Full Ubuntu Unofficial Mirror List is here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors

    It's generally a good idea to switch to one of the unofficial mirrors - the official ones are always bogged down every 6 months when releases happen.

  • @ramnet:
    Citylink and the official nz mirror are the same :)
    The univ one is most prolly physically in NZ though...

    From SoCal, I find nz the fastest; xmission is my 2nd choice-they also have an incredibly broad collection. For Ubuntu folks on a Cal VPS, this mirror is blazing fast: http://mirrors.fwankie.com/ . A look at the address on the Whois will tell you why ;)

  • prometeusprometeus Member, Host Rep

    Added the template for ubuntu 12.04.
    Enjoy :)

  • quirkyquarkquirkyquark Member
    edited April 2012

    For those on 11.10 on a .32 kernel, do-release-upgrade works well - just don't replace any configs when it asks! From 10.04 LTS requires paying a little more attention though....

    Dont forget a sudo tar backup of the root though!

  • @ramnet said: That's 19gbps just for the US/CA from Canonical.

    I wonder how much that costs....

  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    @Kairus said: I wonder how much that costs....

    Probably mostly donated.

    All of these companies sell ubuntu in some fashion and it likely makes up a reasonable amount of their install base. Committing some spare bandwidth isn't a big deal. Leaseweb has like a Tbit of transit? given megaupload is gone i'm sure they have tons of paid transit going to waste.

    Francisco

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  • cedriccedric Member

    Anyone seeding have bandwidth stats? It'd be interesting to see how hard your torrents got hit

  • vrillusionsvrillusions Member
    edited May 2012

    image

    Columns at the end are torrent size, amount uploaded, and ratio. From a server in france. Since the torrents were first available.

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