On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:32 am, Dan Treacy wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 14:49, Peter Hardy wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 14:33, Chris Deigan wrote:
> > > Pacific Internet's Debian mirror is updated every six hours, with
> > > their security archive mirror hourly updated.
> > >
> > > The URL for the main mirror is at: http://mirror.pacific.net.au/
> >
> > Starting to drift off-topic now, but PI have recently started to mirror
> > backports.org as well.
> >
> > http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/debian-backports/
>
> FWIW so are linux.org.au. Sorry haven't got the URL ahnd but it's down
> the bottom of the mirrors page at backports.org
>
> Dan.
I tried using the 'linux.org.au' mirror for backports.org for about a month
back in November ('03) and it was PAINFULLY slow. I'm on 128K ISDN and
could only manage <2kB/sec (21kbps roughly or 1/6 of my potential
bandwidth). I've now switched back to using one of the USA mirrors (can't
remember which one) and I'm getting full 128kbps from there.
Even with an apt-proxy running, if ever there were some significant updates
(like XFree) it would take hours longer than it should given the bandwidth
I have available. Maybe it was a temporary problem that's now fixed? I
haven't tried again since. What are other people's experiences with the
linux.org.au mirror??
James
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