Debian apt-get mirrors

By default raspbian will only use the repository from raspbian.org rather than using a local mirror.

sources.list

Edit the following file moving the default entry to the bottom of the list and adding the following mirrors.

vi /etc/apt/sources.list

Australia

deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/raspbian/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib non-free rpi
deb http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/raspbian/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib non-free rpi
deb http://raspbian.mirror.digitalpacific.com.au/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib non-free rpi

New Zealand

At time of document creation, none.

Singapore

deb http://mirror.nus.edu.sg/raspbian/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib non-free rpi
deb http://mirror.0x.sg/raspbian/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib non-free rpi
deb http://raspbian.3ezy.com/raspbian/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib non-free rpi

Mirrors

For a list or Raspbian mirrors visit RaspbianMirrors