On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > If I use mirror in Japan or Taiwan the speeds are much greater with > Starhub and up to the maximum with Singnet. > My question is why is science.nus.edu.sg in general slow and or > unreliable? Is Singnet slowing the site down on purpose? > Or why, any institution in Singapore would share Ubuntu at such slow and > or unreliable speeds?
I'm not sure how ftp.science.nus manage itself, but I do know that NUS does not have infinite bandwidth, in fact, our bandwidth is choking with people using P2P everywhere. Within NUS, a lot of us are complaining that download speeds are pathetic this academic year (It used to be a few times faster last year). We do not know what had happened to the network, I guess the bandwidth (and perhaps the hardware infrastructure) just could not keep up with the demands. Furthermore, If I don't get my information wrong, either singnet and starhub have a direct link to Taiwan/HK/Japan (I'm not sure which one), which I heard is extremely fast. Btw, geographical proximity in general does not equal faster speed. It all depends on the number of hop and the law of the weakest link (your speed is dictated by the speed of the slowest hop). I'm not defending NUS in any way. I still feel that NUS could have done a lot better. > Note different mirrors similar problems with debian4.0r3? With Debian I have resorted to a sleuth of private mirrors in addition to mirror.pacific mirror. That's one of the best thing living in university, somebody, somewhere have a fast, up to date mirror of Debian (the problem with mirror.nus is that while it's extremely fast to access from NUS, ~2-5MB/s, it is not very updated, especially if you're tracking unstable). Chris _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
