[clug-talk] Shaw Ubuntu Mirror

simon at mungewell.org simon at mungewell.org
Tue May 4 22:35:58 PDT 2010


>
> What service level are you at that you get 1.52  MB/s?? What I get on the
> DSL
> is 160k/sec, using Telus's standard DSL package. My S-I-L, who  was on
> Shaw
> but switched to Telus DSL over support issues, hasn't noticed much
> difference
> in speed between the two.

I think the speed comes from the fact that it's inside Shaw's network and
therefore skipping (some of??) the rate limiting and is the raw speed that
the cable can handle at that point in time.

It wasn't listed last Thursday, but it and others (include a Telus one)
are now:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+cdmirrors

Simon.





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