Re: apt: http vs. ftp?
Where things differ in my experience is where the mirrors get busy. If
there are too many ftp connections you cannot connect. This is either
good or bad, it is good if you are one of the connected it means you get
a faster transfer. Obviously it is bad if you aren't, you get nuffin.
Generally I have foung http faster than ftp, but I have no idea if this
is anything to do with the protocol or the machines and connections they
run on.
Jeff
Erik Steffl wrote:
>
> Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Ray Percival wrote:
> >
> > > That would be backwards ftp is faster but sometimes it is easier to get
> > > http through a proxy and with some proxies it would be possible that
> > > http might be faster.
> >
> > Er, no it isn't. http is faster and better in all cases where there is not
> > a proxy involved.
>
> why would http be faster? how much faster you mean? and what makes it
> better? AFAIK they are about equally good/fast for purpose of file
> transfer...
>
> erik
>
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