On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 10:07:17AM +0100, Frank Wilson wrote: > I seem to find it hard to get a decent speed for any of the ftp > archive mirrors. I've tried using net-select but I rarely get over > 50KBps and often get less than 30KBps (big B stands for bytes here!). > I have considered using axel instead of wget with apt-get (to increase > my download speed by downloading in parallel), but if debian is > capping the download speed on its servers by this much then I would > not like to "hammer" them by trying to circumvent the cap. > > I only have a couple of computers running debian so running a local > mirror might be a bit overkill. > > Are downloads from the debian package archive capped? Is there an apt > setting I may have missed? It could be my isp, but I'd like to rule > these out before I spend a fortune on their tech support line. 8-) > > Thanks for any help or advice you can give me, I haven't seen any sort of limiting, I use the .au mirrors. You might want to look at apt-cache, point all of your machines to your apt-cache server > > Frank > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > >
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