Canada Ubuntu repositories are unstable and slow
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Bug Description
After installing Gutsty beta5 and setting my timezone (Vancouver, Canada), all repositories default to the Canadian repositories. This normally wouldn't be a problem, of course, but those repositories are ridiculously unstable, slow if they work, and often broken. They've been like that for a long time. I was surprised to not find an existing bug report (but that doesn't mean there isn't one).
This issue has been brought up on the forums, with people switching to the Main (US) repositories as the solution.
See: http://
To a new user, who does not know about repositories and happily lets the updater time-out and fail, this will leave a very bad impression. I don't think the localized repositories should be enabled until they are proven stable and speedy enough.
| jcfp (jcfp) wrote | #1 |
| Brett Alton (brett-alton-deactivatedaccount) wrote | #2 |
As you are probably aware, Ubuntu uses CC.archive.
Note that as a result of the above, there will be no difference between using the ca or us archive at this time. All but one of the forum threads you listed are ancient history and thus may not reflect the current situation. For fast repositories, your best choice is probably a western-European mirror like nl, ch, se, dk, be.