i am more then willing to become the maintainer of the local mirror. also on my 10mbps connection using an italian server i get abou 1.2mbps. what other isps are there that we coudl talk to that might give us more bandwidth?
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Re: local ubuntu mirror (Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:25:37 +0200 > From: Keith Vassallo <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [LINUX.ORG.MT] local ubuntu mirror > To: Malta Linux User Group - general list <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Regarding this point our mirror sponsor is currently GO. I've just tried > downloading the latest Ubuntu from the local mirror (I'm on Melita) and got > a speed of 125Kb/s - which means we're getting a 1Mbps upload speed. On the > other hand when I download from the UK I get 1.4MB/s (That's megabytes not > megabits). So as you can see our mirror is pretty pointless at the moment. > > GO's commercial packages for home users as well as businesses offer 1Mbps > at their most expensive - but that's a retail package not co-location. None > of the three major ISPs in Malta tell will tell you how much bandwidth is > available for co-located servers, however to get speeds similar to what you > can get on a 10Mbps connection from the UK via our server we'd need our > upload speed to be 10Mbps. > > So, when talking to GO, that's how much upload bandwidth we should ask for. > Not because we're greedy, but because anything else would make the server > absolutely redundant. > > Whether or not we'll actually get this speed is another matter, which puts > into question the need for the mirror. > > K > > > On 29 Apr 2010, at 07:45, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > > > hey guys i had posted to the email and got a response from an individual > about the local ubuntu mirror here. i never heard anything back from him if > its possible to get a faster connection for the mirror as the speeds are > deplorable, and as a result i dont even use the local mirror. would it be > possible to get an update as to whats happening please. > > > > -- > > Jonathan Aquilina > > _______________________________________________ > > MLUG-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:57:51 +0200 > From: Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [LINUX.ORG.MT] local ubuntu mirror > To: Malta Linux User Group - general list <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Agreed Keith, > > Considering that nobody actively maintains the Ubuntu mirror, we don't have > the bandwidth anymore since we moved to Marsa (not that we had much > bandwidth beforehand anyway) and the mt.ubuntu is not even pointing to > Malta, I feel that the whole effort of mirroring at this stage is at its > best futile to the end user. To solve the situation, I think we should > tackle each and every issue: > > 1) Obtain bandwidth for the local mirror - this might involve us changing > ISP > 2) Find a maintainer for the local Ubuntu mirror > 3) Direct the mt.ubuntu to our Ubuntu mirror > > Now this has been dragging for too long. If we don't get some decent > bandwidth, I am very inclined to propose scrapping the whole mirror > project. > 10.04 LTS is round the corner, and unless we can have an upstream that can > handle at least two simultaneous users at an average download speed (8Mbit) > people will choose foreign mirrors over ours. > > Ramon, you used to handle the ISP issues with Maltanet at the time. Can you > try and talk to them directly (maybe you would need me too on this) so we > get 15Mbit-20Mbit allowed on our connection? I doubt that our allocation > through Anton will ever give us more than 6Mbit I recall. > > -- > Raphael > > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Keith Vassallo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Regarding this point our mirror sponsor is currently GO. I've just tried > > downloading the latest Ubuntu from the local mirror (I'm on Melita) and > got > > a speed of 125Kb/s - which means we're getting a 1Mbps upload speed. On > the > > other hand when I download from the UK I get 1.4MB/s (That's megabytes > not > > megabits). So as you can see our mirror is pretty pointless at the > moment. > > > > GO's commercial packages for home users as well as businesses offer 1Mbps > > at their most expensive - but that's a retail package not co-location. > None > > of the three major ISPs in Malta tell will tell you how much bandwidth is > > available for co-located servers, however to get speeds similar to what > you > > can get on a 10Mbps connection from the UK via our server we'd need our > > upload speed to be 10Mbps. > > > > So, when talking to GO, that's how much upload bandwidth we should ask > for. > > Not because we're greedy, but because anything else would make the server > > absolutely redundant. > > > > Whether or not we'll actually get this speed is another matter, which > puts > > into question the need for the mirror. > > > > K > > > > > > On 29 Apr 2010, at 07:45, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > > > > > hey guys i had posted to the email and got a response from an > individual > > about the local ubuntu mirror here. i never heard anything back from him > if > > its possible to get a faster connection for the mirror as the speeds are > > deplorable, and as a result i dont even use the local mirror. would it be > > possible to get an update as to whats happening please. > > > > > > -- > > > Jonathan Aquilina > > > _______________________________________________ > > > MLUG-list mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MLUG-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://linux.org.mt/pipermail/mlug-list/attachments/20100429/e534bafb/attachment.html > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > End of MLUG-list Digest, Vol 71, Issue 18 > ***************************************** > -- Jonathan Aquilina
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