The Ubuntu and Debian mirrors are now hosted by mirror.pregi.net. I get an
average of 33ms from pregi.net compared to 84ms from jaist at home.

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Zak Elep <zak...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Holden Hao <holden...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Last time I did a ping on them for Debian and Ubuntu, their mirror was
> >> out of date.  But that was years ago; I do not know now as I use JAIST
> >> and WIDE rsync mirrors maintaining our own mirror at $WORK.
> >
> > I did not even know that Preginet was mirroring Ubuntu's repositories
> > before today.  I also use JAIST but I thought Preginet would be faster
> > since they are local.
>
> I dug at my old mail archives and found a conversation between me and
> the maintainers of mirror.pscigrid.gov.ph (e-Science Grid.)  Looks
> like that mirror is gone now, but IIRC they're connected to Preginet,
> and it was very fast back then IIRC.  Their only trouble was that they
> ran out of storage, and due to some goings on back then it was hard
> for them to get additional storage.
>
> Pinging mirror.pregi.net from where I am now give me around ~370ms
> latency:
>
> zakame@ironhide:~% ping -c 10 mirror.pregi.net
> PING mirror.pregi.net (202.90.158.192) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 202.90.158.192: icmp_req=1 ttl=48 time=370 ms
> 64 bytes from 202.90.158.192: icmp_req=2 ttl=48 time=392 ms
> 64 bytes from 202.90.158.192: icmp_req=3 ttl=48 time=380 ms
> 64 bytes from 202.90.158.192: icmp_req=4 ttl=48 time=251 ms
> 64 bytes from 202.90.158.192: icmp_req=5 ttl=48 time=382 ms
> 64 bytes from 202.90.158.192: icmp_req=6 ttl=48 time=342 ms
> 64 bytes from 202.90.158.192: icmp_req=7 ttl=48 time=264 ms
> 64 bytes from 202.90.158.192: icmp_req=8 ttl=48 time=272 ms
> 64 bytes from 202.90.158.192: icmp_req=9 ttl=48 time=219 ms
> 64 bytes from 202.90.158.192: icmp_req=10 ttl=48 time=370 ms
>
> --- mirror.pregi.net ping statistics ---
> 10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9010ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 219.512/324.596/392.203/61.973 ms
>
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