[Malvern] Debian mirrors.

[Graham Smith]

Geoff Bagley wrote:
 > Does anyone have any experience of the relative speed of ftp down-load
 > mirrors ?
 >
 > The  //uk.ftp.debian.org  mirror is _horribly_ slow compared to
 > //ftp.debian.org.
 >

When I used Debian I remember having a go with a program called apt-spy. 
  It has a go downloading from some/all the mirrors and testing the 
download speed and then writes a sources.list based on the quickest.

Make sure you backup your current sources.list first - but might be 
worth a go.

Cheers,
Graham