Re: How useful is apt-spy?
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:22:31PM +0200, Wim De Smet wrote:
> On 6/14/05, David Jardine <david@jardine.de> 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.
> > [...]
>
> When I last tried it the results where less than reliable. I'm not
> sure about the theory behind it but with your kind of hardware I
> wouldn't have bothered to run apt-spy.
>
> >
> > Might I have been better off just looking for the server
> > nearest to me geographically?
>
> yes
Thanks. I'll remember that next time.
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David Jardine
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loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895)
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