On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 04:30:08PM +0530, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote: > I had posted a mail earlier saying that I found it very difficult to run > "apt-get update" ... it turns out that the default debian sites have > become extremely slow to access from IIT. Now that I switched to the > Australian mirror (arbit decision) everything is fine. > > Has anybody tried using netselect to see which is the best mirror to use > from India? I can't do that from IIT since ping packets can't go out ...
i haven't tried netselect, but the speed of iitm.ac.in is often very clearly faster than sites outside of India. Try it: deb ftp://ftp.iitm.ac.in/debian testing main contrib non-free -- Victory to the Divine Mother!! after all, http://sahajayoga.org http://why-compete.org _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
