Re: MODEM LATENCY
I hate to ask this cause it is really a DUHHH ... How
do I select the mirror that I want to go to? This is
part of the address in the sources file
htpp://security.debian.org/dists/potato/ binaryi386...
that is not the complete address, but how do I specify
the mirror that I want to use?
Don
--- Forrest English <forrest@truffula.net> wrote:
> apt-get install hdparm
>
> but, i kinda doubt that it is a latency problem on
> the hard drives. i'm
> guessing your connection to the mirror you have
> selected in your
> sources.list is just poor. try another mirror
> closer to you.
>
> just a suggestion, but the slowest drive i've ever
> seen was .89 megs a
> second. which is still more than enough to not time
> out waiting for data
> for a dsl line, much less a modem.
>
> --
> Forrest English
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>
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>
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, D. Hoyem wrote:
>
> > I have been trying to use the apt-get update ;
> apt-get
> > install communicator to get Netscape downloaded
> from
> > the Debian non-free site that is in the sources. I
> can
> > connect and download but then I get timed out... I
> was
> > told on #Debian irc.debian.org that it might be a
> > latency problem...So I did a search on the wed and
> > found quite a bit of info and it all is saying to
> use
> > hdparm to check your hard drive. I have 2 hard
> drives
> > and Debian is on hdb2(swap) 156M, hdb3(/) 5.6G. I
> have
> > tried as root and the response is, command not
> found.
> > What am I doing wrong, and will this help resolve
> the
> > latency problem, do I have to be in the /sbin or
> > /usr/sbin to run this comand? After I find the
> best
> > settings when do I need to place them so they will
> be
> > picked up on start up?
> > TIA
> > Don
> >
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