Re: How useful is apt-spy?
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 12:45 pm, David Jardine wrote:
> Wanting to upgrade from Woody to Sarge and having a slow modem
> (not one of those ultra-modern 56K things), I thought apt-spy
> might be a useful thing to use to find the fastest mirror. I
> have no complaints about the result because I have no way of
> knowing how much faster or slower it would have been if I
> hadn't used the mirror in Brazil that came out fastest in
> their test.
>
> However, since apt-spy took 50 minutes to run through all the
> mirrors and the download itself took about 15 hours, I wonder
> how useful apt-spy's tests were. I have the feeling that I
> was wasting my time with apt-spy since the potential download
> speeds from the various servers would be unpredictable shortly
> after the sampling, but I don't know how much and how fast
> these things do vary.
>
> Might I have been better off just looking for the server
> nearest to me geographically?
>
> Thanks for any response that will help me next time.
You can use 'netselect <mirror(s)>' this way you check just one or as
many as you want to type in. I concur though that you probably don't
need the fastest mirror on a dial-up < 56k modem :-)
--
Greg Madden
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