On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 2:43 AM, André Nunes Batista < andrenbati...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Please, note that this is debian user list, not debian customer service > list. > Asia sometimes has problems with mirror configurations that tend to slime-pit certain distros in certain areas at certain times. Not with apt-get, but definitely with yum update and with downloading images from mirrors on some weekends. > > Besides what others said, you could also try to download using > bittorrent. > Excellent suggestion for downloading install images. But I'm thinking we generate as much or more traffic with apt-get. Can apt-get be configured to use bt? Does it already, and I just haven't noticed? > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.1.0/ > > Look for you architecture and "bt" when browsing folders. > > -- > > Luther Blisset > GNUPG/PGP KEY: 6722CF80 > > I challenge you to play the game in which there is no loser but > everything is fun and worthwhile! > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> > To: Tony van der Hoff <t...@vanderhoff.org> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 10:04:21 -0400 > Subject: Re: About download speed > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:08:36PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > why can't *you* request NTC to set up a Debian mirror? If you're a > > customer, then they're more likely to listen to you that some random > > Debian supporter! > > > > > > On 10/07/13 11:31, Manoj Ghimire wrote: > > > Hello, Greetings from Nepal. > > > > > > I am Manoj Ghimire from Nepal. I am currently using Ubuntu 13.04. I > > > wanted to switch to Debian so I tried to download the ISO file from > your > > > website. What I get is about 20KB/s download speed which is maximum > some > > > times I even get less that 15KB/s. Ubuntu has download speed of about > > > 100KB/s. It has cache <ubuntu.ntc.net.np> which happens to be hosted > by > > > NTC. It is the telecom provider of Nepal. Can you guys request NTC to > > > host your distribution too??? I think they can. > > > Until then its simply impossible for us to download Debian or get > > > updates installed. Furthermore we don't have a place to buy latest > > > Debian DVD in Nepal. > > > I am a big fan of Linux, specially of Debian so please do something > > > about it. > > Tony, please don't top-post. > > Manoj -- Please get in contact with NTC and point them at > http://www.debian.org/mirror/ > which has instructions for people who want to set up mirrors > and > http://www.debian.org/mirror/official > discusses how to become an official country-wide mirror. > > You can buy Debian DVDs from many places; the ones listed here: > http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ > who ship internationally are marked as such. > > > -dsr- > > -- Joel Rees
