Maybe you shoul use netselect-apt On 6/15/05, Andy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:45:02PM +0200, 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. > > The answer to your question in the topic is, "not really that useful > for ME". > > On much faster links, a small increase in latency such as 10ms can > have a dramatic effect on the maximum bandwidth attainable. If you > want to know more about that, google for "bandwidth delay product". > But on a much slower link like your slow modem it doesn't really > matter, and indeed since your downloads may take on the order of > hours anyway it is dubious logic to expect the results of a single > test to continue to be valid that long. > > You could use it at several different times to see which mirrors are > consistently faster for you and stick with them. > > > Might I have been better off just looking for the server > > nearest to me geographically? > > Yes, or using apt-spy or netselect to find out if there is a mirror > or two that are consistently faster. But on a slow modem, don't > expect miracles whatever the case. :) > > > BodyID:152993363.2.n.logpart (stored separately) > >
