Comment 5 for bug 10856

"I don't necessarily expect to do anything about it any time soon (at present we're using CC.archive.ubuntu.com, which is sort of an OK arrangement although not perfect)."

What is "CC.archive.ubuntu.com"? Is that a round-robin bouncer of some sort? I've never noticed it in a sources.list file.

Do all the *.archive.ubuntu.com mirrors use this?

All I know is when I take a look at the extensive list of Ubuntu mirrors (on Launchpad or the wiki) that many out there are taking the time, money and resources to voluntarily maintain for us, we should put them to use. :)

I suspect the overwhelming majority of *Ubuntu users stick with the defaults they get at at the outset.

I personally change mine to one of the mirrors that is (luckily) located in the same city as I am. Needless to say it's much faster than any *.ubuntu.com site (more often than not).

In addition, the default sources.list file keeps the default security.ubuntu.com archive regardless of what official Ubuntu mirror is used (at least in the case of those otherwise with us.archive.ubuntu.com anyway). I find security.ubuntu.com is often quite slow. And us.archive.ubuntu.com (as well as the other mirrors - those I've seen anyway-) mirror the security archive as well.

For example, (at the very least) those who indicate they are in the United States at the initial Ubuntu install should have something like.:

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xxxx-security ..........
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xxxx-security ..........

instead of...

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xxxx-security ..........
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xxxx-security ..........

..in their sources.list file.

That way security updates would come from the same site as the default, backports, proposed and updates archives and they would very likely have quicker downloads.

One thing I've noticed though, is that when I switch everything from an *.ubuntu.com domain they are treated as "third party archives" in synaptic/gnome-app-install/update-manager/software-properties-gtk. This implies these aren't sources of official Ubuntu packages.

Perhaps that should be a separate bug (if it's not already)?