I can't get data from mirror.ac.uk. I'm not behind a firewall, but it just doesn't serve me stuff. I suspect it's something to do with active/passive ftp sessions, but I can't find anything about how to flip this switch in Yast. mirrorservice.com works fine for me, but I dont get 6Mb/sec from it :(
Assuming you actually mean mirrorservice.org, they're the same thing, mirrorservice.org is the new name, I suspect mirror.ac.uk is being fased out (JISC changed how they allocated their funds you see). As for your transfer rates, remember, there are lots of different factors that affect this, it's the UK Mirror Service, and you're in South Africa from what I can ascertain, now, my experience of UK-ZA connections is that they can be ropey at best... :) -- James Ogley james@usr-local-bin.org GNOME for SuSE: http://usr-local-bin.org/rpms