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Have you tried torrenting it?
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
Have you ever been to Vegas? They have all of these illegals that harras you as you pass by with these 'porno trading cards'. I plan to collect the whole busty set just to horrify the family with.
EDIT - WATTA JUAN DOLLA
Francisco
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.
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?
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".
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 .
That's actually not a bad idea. I'll run it by the guys.
Francisco
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:
I'm too lazy to read the entire google page
If it makes you any happier:
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 ;-)
@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
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
Added the template for ubuntu 12.04.
Enjoy
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!
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
Anyone seeding have bandwidth stats? It'd be interesting to see how hard your torrents got hit
Columns at the end are torrent size, amount uploaded, and ratio. From a server in france. Since the torrents were first available.