David Jardine wrote:
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.
I use apt-spy and I think the results are pretty consistent. I have let
it rub through all of the mirrors three times over the last few months.
Many of the fastest ten sites I had apt-spy output where the same for
those three runs. I have additional run apt-spy using the file input
option so that it only tested the ten fast servers previously found.
Most recently I did this four or five times on different days and I
apt-spy gave the same server as the fastest.
Might I have been better off just looking for the server
nearest to me geographically?
Despite what I said above, in my case every time I have run apt-spy the
fastest severs where ones that were either the closest or second closest
to me. So if I only had a 56k modem I wouldn't bother.
Thanks for any response that will help me next time.
David
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