Best location to download Ubuntu from?

[briv1016]

When I get to the download section of Ubuntu's webpage it asks me where I want to download it from and gives me like 20-30 different American locations to choose from. Is there a "best" location or are they all generally the same? I'm located on Long Island (NY) if location makes a difference.

Also, I’ve only heard great things about Ubuntu. Does it live up to the hype?

[ghostsofgiants]

1. I've never used Ubuntu but I don't think there would be a huge difference between the servers

[newmajority]

3. unfortunately, there can be.

They all have the same files, but they might not all have the same hardware, or bandwidth. Some of them you can download the entire ISO within a half hour. Others take all day.

Unfortunately, it's hard to know which is which unless you have downloaded from them before.

[ghostsofgiants]

4. I know that but in my experience, the download speeds are usually comparable on most of the servers.

[Solon]

2. Look for the location that is geographically the closest to you...

granted, it doesn't make that much of a difference, but general area(the Northeast) would be good enough. I know they give a lot of choices, but some people want it NOW, and its like 700 megabytes, and being such a large file, it taxes servers pretty hard when popular, that's why there are so many mirrors for it.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

5. I would say

pretty near the computuer.


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Oh, I crak my self up!