• Texus
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Topic: Check for Server Speed During Install/Update?

I installed Statler 2 on my office machine a couple of days ago, and the updates were excruciatingly slow (but browsing was fine). Apt-spy finally saved the day. Would Corenominal consider including this or an alternative as default after first install and also for system-upgrades?

  • Registered: 2010-09-02
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Re: Check for Server Speed During Install/Update?

Another choice would be netselect-apt

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  • Texus
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Re: Check for Server Speed During Install/Update?

That'd be fine too. As long as there's some way of automatically picking the fastest mirror. It seems such an obvious thing, I wonder why all the distros don't have it. It's not like pinging the mirrors takes a lot of time.

Corenominal, you copy?

  • Awebb
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Re: Check for Server Speed During Install/Update?

So, did you implement it yourself allready? How about finding a solution and providing us with a patch? I'm sure a feature request with some work done beforehand has a much higher chance.

Last edited by Awebb (2010-11-14 13:08:06)

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Re: Check for Server Speed During Install/Update?

The solution is to use apt-spy or netselect-app. There is no patch; its just a program.

Heres a thread about netselect-app:

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … st-mirror/

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