[CLUE-Tech] debian mirrors

Randy Arabie rrarabie at arabie.org
Sun Oct 13 08:13:17 MDT 2002


On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Timothy C. Klein wrote:

> * Randy Arabie (rrarabie at arabie.org) wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > I'm giving debian my first try, and I was wondering if any of you debian
> > fans could recommend a favorite mirror to put in my apt list?
> > 
> 
> I get consistently good results from this mirror:
> 
> ftp://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/debian/
> 
> There is also a program you can install after you get Debian up and
> running, called apt-spy.  It will download a list of mirrors, and test
> the bandwidth from those mirrors.  It will then give you a report of the
> 10 (or some #) fastest ones.

This apt-spy program did the trick.  Thanks.

Randy




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