With Penguin-fans everywhere madly hitting Ubuntu mirrors worldwide today grabbing the Final Release of Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex (including myself), people are discovering that using the official major country mirrors can be a bit slow. In the case of Australia, the official mirror is au.archive.ubuntu.com but it’s much slower than many of the other official and unofficial Australian mirrors, especially if your local ISP keeps their own mirror.

It makes sense then, to change your setup to point to a faster mirror rather than rely on the primary.

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