Regarding Rej's three points:
1. Yes we have to start with more bw as the other two points would
otherwise be futile. Jonathan, if u have contacts you're more than
welcome to give it a shot.
2. John seems up to the job and we can all pitch in to maintain.
3. Direction can only be done once we have a fast, updated mirror.
With the current state of the mirror I don't blame canonical for
ignoring our requests.
K
On 29 Apr 2010, at 11:57, Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti <[email protected]
> wrote:
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.
>
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