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.
However, since apt-spy took 50 minutes to run through all the mirrors and the download itself took about 15 hours, I wonder how useful apt-spy's tests were. I have the feeling that I was wasting my time with apt-spy since the potential download speeds from the various servers would be unpredictable shortly after the sampling, but I don't know how much and how fast these things do vary. Might I have been better off just looking for the server nearest to me geographically? Thanks for any response that will help me next time. David -- David Jardine "Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
