As of Karmic, ca.archive.ubuntu.com is still (since as along as I can
remember -- been using Ubuntu since Breezy) MUCH slower than
us.archive.ubuntu.com or archive.ubuntu.com.
Where are the mirrors located and who is hosting it? Doesn't University
of Waterloo provide a mirror and offer it to a
As you are probably aware, Ubuntu uses CC.archive.ubuntu.com with CC
being a two-letter country code. Any country that doesn't have its own
mirror is referred to the very same main servers. Since both Canada
and the USA do not have repository mirrors, they too automatically use
the main servers.
