On Tuesday 14 June 2005 12:45 pm, David Jardine wrote: > Wanting to upgrade from Woody to Sarge and having a slow modem > (not one of those ultra-modern 56K things), I thought apt-spy > might be a useful thing to use to find the fastest mirror. I > have no complaints about the result because I have no way of > knowing how much faster or slower it would have been if I > hadn't used the mirror in Brazil that came out fastest in > their test. > > However, since apt-spy took 50 minutes to run through all the > mirrors and the download itself took about 15 hours, I wonder > how useful apt-spy's tests were. I have the feeling that I > was wasting my time with apt-spy since the potential download > speeds from the various servers would be unpredictable shortly > after the sampling, but I don't know how much and how fast > these things do vary. > > Might I have been better off just looking for the server > nearest to me geographically? > > Thanks for any response that will help me next time.
You can use 'netselect <mirror(s)>' this way you check just one or as many as you want to type in. I concur though that you probably don't need the fastest mirror on a dial-up < 56k modem :-) -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
