Re: How useful is apt-spy?
Maybe you shoul use netselect-apt
On 6/15/05, Andy Smith <andy@lug.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:45:02PM +0200, 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.
>
> The answer to your question in the topic is, "not really that useful
> for ME".
>
> On much faster links, a small increase in latency such as 10ms can
> have a dramatic effect on the maximum bandwidth attainable. If you
> want to know more about that, google for "bandwidth delay product".
> But on a much slower link like your slow modem it doesn't really
> matter, and indeed since your downloads may take on the order of
> hours anyway it is dubious logic to expect the results of a single
> test to continue to be valid that long.
>
> You could use it at several different times to see which mirrors are
> consistently faster for you and stick with them.
>
> > Might I have been better off just looking for the server
> > nearest to me geographically?
>
> Yes, or using apt-spy or netselect to find out if there is a mirror
> or two that are consistently faster. But on a slow modem, don't
> expect miracles whatever the case. :)
>
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