Re: [Hampshire] slow source lsit

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Author: Tim
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] slow source lsit
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 21:30, Andy Random wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Tim wrote:
> > I am currently using
> >
> > deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ etch main
> >
> > In my apt source list and it is painfully slow, I have tried the program
> > netselect to test the speed of the source site and it does not return a
> > time (I checked with some US source sites and they replied with times)
> >
> > Does anybody have any faster UK source sites or is using the US sites
> > ok?? (http.us.debian.org)
>
> I have
>
> deb http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib
>
> in my source list, so I'd suggest you try replacing
> http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ with http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/
>
> Andy


Thanks Andy, I have already run apt tonight so will see what the response is
like when I next run it.

[Jim]
I have had this problem for several weeks now and quite frankly the earthquake
has made no differences.

Tim
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