On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 02:00:18PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > On Tuesday 14 June 2005 12:45 pm, 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. > > > > [...] > > > > Might I have been better off just looking for the server > > nearest to me geographically? > > > > You can use 'netselect <mirror(s)>' this way you check just one or as > many as you want to type in. I concur though that you probably don't > need the fastest mirror on a dial-up < 56k modem :-)
I don't need the mirror that can pump stuff out the fastest, but I do need (well, would like to have) a connection from here to a mirror that makes my modem the limiting factor, not the reliability of the connection. Thanks for the "netselect" tip. I'll look into that. Cheers, 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]
