--- In [email protected], "dbneeley" <dbnee...@...> wrote: > > Paul, > > It doesn't matter--the fastest mirror will depend upon where you are. For me, > in Ukraine, the mirrors you use are likely to be extremely slow. > > To find the fastest mirror is fairly straight-forward. If you're using Ubuntu > or one of its derivatives, the application called Ailurus has a tab > specifically set up to test any mirrors you wish, anywhere in the world. > > I have found that the mirrors that test fastest at one time may vary a month > or more later, so I wind up running this quarterly or thereabouts. In the > last two years, I've changed mirrors once to a different one, then about six > months later back to the original as the intervening connections seemed to > vary in the meantime. > > David
I tried some app (netselect-apt?) that claimed it could find the fastest mirror. Maybe I ran it wrong or something because the one it picked out for me was a dog! So I went down the list trying a few until I found one that was head and shoulders above all the rest. Although now that you mention it I did notice my speed was down about 200KB/s below what it usually is last time I used it. I was getting 1.45MB/s as opposed to my typical 1.65MB/s Sometimes it takes a moment for it to come all the way up though and maybe whatever I was getting just wasn't big enough to get up to full speed? 38% [70 kdebase-workspace-data 46887806/68.2 MB 68%] 1,643 kB/s 1min 45s Nah that looks about right to me. My connection doesn't go much faster than that really so I'm good with it. I was really due for an upgrade. 118 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 281 MB of archives. After unpacking 332 kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y Oh, and I run Debian. Ubuntu is a little too busy for me. ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
