apt-spy

[Michael ODonnell]

Just a tip to fellow Debian users out there: check out
apt-spy - it benchmarks connection speeds from your
site to various Debian mirrors (many of which you're
unlikely to have heard about) and can find you some
truly zippy ones.  I've just done a fairly ponderous
'apt-get dist-upgrade' at work where the throughput
for the whole session averaged over 1gB/S, which is
a tad faster than the 150kB/S I'd been seeing from
some of the better known mirrors.