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Ubuntu 6.1 servers slow?

10 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/ubuntu-6-1-servers-slow.40374/

shaunak
shaunak Original post #1
Nov 5, 2006 at 9:53 AM
I mm downloading the iso of kubuntu EE but the maximum download speed imm able to get is 20KBps [that too from a french server.]
Where as for Ubuntu DD imm getting a speed of 28Kbps
Is there any alternative mirror [unlisted] i can use?

Imm on a 256Kbps line.
hellknight
Nov 5, 2006 at 1:31 PM
Use Bit Torrent or any of its client, because torrents are gen. more fast than the mirrors. snipped*www.torrentz.com
shaunak
shaunak #3
Nov 5, 2006 at 7:30 PM
Have spent 6hrs so far. The max speed i was able to extract was 23Kbps. Will finishing downloading in a couple of hours. Maybe the EEft mirrors are slow or overloaded.
hellknight
Nov 5, 2006 at 8:33 PM
they may be overloaded because Ubuntu 6.10 is freshly launched. But 23kbps is the speed on mirror or on torrent?
shaunak
shaunak #5
Nov 8, 2006 at 3:04 PM
On some french mirror.
The Outsider
Nov 9, 2006 at 2:19 AM
get it from the official canonical mirror, i downloaded on the second day of release, 7-8 kBps constant on dialup (considered good on dialup), finished in 40 hours flat.
JGuru
JGuru #7
Nov 9, 2006 at 12:06 PM
@Chester, You downloaded Kubuntu 6.10 using a dialup? 40 hours flat??
Better get yourself a broadband connection (Airtel preferably). 40 hours using a phone line is very expensive!!!
D
Nov 9, 2006 at 8:34 PM
well broadband is still not available every where :(
The Outsider
Nov 9, 2006 at 8:50 PM
JGuru said:
@Chester, You downloaded Kubuntu 6.10 using a dialup? 40 hours flat??
Better get yourself a broadband connection (Airtel preferably). 40 hours using a phone line is very expensive!!!


no airtel boadband here, waiting for it to launch here & don't wanna go for bsnl one.
JGuru
JGuru #10
Nov 11, 2006 at 12:47 AM
That's really sad. Hopefully your city gets Airtel broadband in the near future.
Yes, broadband is not available everywhere in India.