The thing is, for most people in Uganda selecting a mirror is fairly pointless. You don't have high enough speeds to notice any significant difference. The bottleneck is in the last mile.
On 24 April 2012 21:52, Hari Kurup <[email protected]> wrote: > On 22/04/2012 11:04, Koen Fasten wrote: > > > For linux mint there is a list of > > mirrors:http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1889 I am not sure which one is > > closest. From geographical point of view I think south Africa. But > > this might be different from an internet infrastructure perspective. I > > am open for comments on this. > > This is always a moving target but you can run some tests to determine > your best mirror. For example, using a box that runs linux mint (and I > suspect something similar in Ubuntu), select:- > > Menu>Administration>Update Manager>Edit>Software sources>Linux Mint > Software>Download From>Other>Select Best Server > > And as of now, on my Orange 3G connection, that turns out to be > linux-mint.froonix.org in Germany. > > Hope this helps. > > -- > Hari > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: > [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in > any way. >
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