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Re: would like to do install from local mirror



On Thu 17 Jul 2025 at 15:26:15 (-0400), Šarūnas Burdulis wrote:
> On 2025-07-17 2:46 PM, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> 
> > My internet service is by way of a dish out in the yard,  and I have
> > no idea where the base station is for the uplink to that particular
> > satellites. How best to deal with that,  I wonder?

Use lines beginning with:

  deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/

in your sources list, rather than geographical sites.

> Not sure about the base station, but traceroute to a known host might
> be a start.
> 
> For empirically finding the fastest mirror, have you tried netselect-apt?

Like Charles, I think the Content Delivery Network does this for you
more effectively than you can. For more information, browse:

  https://deb.debian.org

Cheers,
David.


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