On Friday 14 May 2010 17:06:35 Anton Piatek wrote:
> This has been discussed several times on the Debian lists - there are
> several prototypes or packages that do this already, some even using
> bittorrent, however most of the consensus is that the packages are
> often small and the overhead of p2p is too high to get significant
> gains. Certainly with so many mirrors around you might argue it is too
> much effort (my ISP, virgin, have a mirror on their network so I get
> ridiculously fast apt updates for my system)

If I'm already using "archive.ubuntu.com" while on Virgin, will it use the 
Virgin mirror?  Or do I need to manually specify it?

Regards,
Tyler

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and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible."
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