> I gather that you've tried several different mirrors, right? What kind > of d/l speed do you get using any of the free bandwidth testers? >
Well I went to speedtest.net (I don't know if that's a good one or not!). They gave me 275Kbps down and 354Kbps up (that's bits this time!). Those figures look the wrong way around but it seems i have more upstream than downstream (i tested it twice). The thing is when I use a download accelerator (parallel downloads) to download say eclipse ornetbeans. My download speed is more or less alright(100-150KBytes/sec). So I guess maybe I'm just fighting it out with with people doing lots of p2p. There doesn't seem to be a nice way of integrating apt-get with axel. I've only seen people doing apt-get in two stages with axel (in short get the dependencies from apt-get, then download with axel, then install with apt-get). I found a shell script someone wrote to automate this called apt-axel, but it didn't work for me. > its not a big deal and once setup, then the second machine to d/l a > package gets it pretty much instantly. Couple that with machines > running cron-apt and you you pretty much never see a real download, > only the cached copies. I am using approx. ymmv. I might give it a go if my connection stays this poor. I have one spare machine (it's noisy mind!). Thanks for the replies. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
