Re: About download speed

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 2:43 AM, André Nunes Batista <andrenbatista@gmail.com> wrote:

Please, note that this is debian user list, not debian customer service
list.

Asia sometimes has problems with mirror configurations that tend to slime-pit certain distros in certain areas at certain times.

Not with apt-get, but definitely with yum update and with downloading images from mirrors on some weekends.

Besides what others said, you could also try to download using
bittorrent.

Excellent suggestion for downloading install images.

But I'm thinking we generate as much or more traffic with apt-get. Can apt-get be configured to use bt? Does it already, and I just haven't noticed?

http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.1.0/

Look for you architecture and "bt" when browsing folders.

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
To: Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 10:04:21 -0400
Subject: Re: About download speed
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:08:36PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> why can't *you* request NTC to set up a Debian mirror? If you're a
> customer, then they're more likely to listen to you that some random
> Debian supporter!
>
>
> On 10/07/13 11:31, Manoj Ghimire wrote:
> > Hello, Greetings from Nepal.
> >
> > I am Manoj Ghimire from Nepal. I am currently using Ubuntu 13.04. I
> > wanted to switch to Debian so I tried to download the ISO file from your
> > website. What I get is about 20KB/s download speed which is maximum some
> > times I even get less that 15KB/s. Ubuntu has download speed of about
> > 100KB/s. It has cache <ubuntu.ntc.net.np> which happens to be hosted by
> > NTC. It is the telecom provider of Nepal. Can you guys request NTC to
> > host your distribution too??? I think they can.
> > Until then its simply impossible for us to download Debian or get
> > updates installed. Furthermore we don't have a place to buy latest
> > Debian DVD in Nepal.
> > I am a big fan of Linux, specially of Debian so please do something
> > about it.

Tony, please don't top-post.

Manoj -- Please get in contact with NTC and point them at
http://www.debian.org/mirror/
which has instructions for people who want to set up mirrors
and
http://www.debian.org/mirror/official
discusses how to become an official country-wide mirror.

You can buy Debian DVDs from many places; the ones listed here:
http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/
who ship internationally are marked as such.

-dsr-

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