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


...duuuhhhhhh, I meant to say megabyte, not gigabyte.


>a tad faster than the 150kB/S I'd been seeing from
>some of the better known mirrors.