On Thu 17 Jul 2025 at 15:26:15 (-0400), Šarūnas Burdulis wrote: > On 2025-07-17 2:46 PM, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > My internet service is by way of a dish out in the yard, and I have > > no idea where the base station is for the uplink to that particular > > satellites. How best to deal with that, I wonder?
Use lines beginning with: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ in your sources list, rather than geographical sites. > Not sure about the base station, but traceroute to a known host might > be a start. > > For empirically finding the fastest mirror, have you tried netselect-apt? Like Charles, I think the Content Delivery Network does this for you more effectively than you can. For more information, browse: https://deb.debian.org Cheers, David.

