tool used to download packages?

[Joe Hart]

Andy Harrison wrote:
> On 2/6/07, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>> The question would be why would you need to change it?
> 
> The reason is that the tool does not work properly.  I regularly get
> timeout errors from this tool, definitely more than 50% of the time.
> Yet if I take the url from the error message regarding which package
> it timed out on and simply paste that url right to the commandline
> with wget, it downloads immediately at my usual blazing speed without
> so much as a hiccup.
> 
> My network connection is rock solid, never any errors on my ethernet
> interface, and I never have any issues with my physical network
> connection when I'm here at the office on the wired network (I work at
> an isp and my desk is two hops from gigabits of b/w).  The only time I
> ever have problems downloading anything is with apt-get (either from
> the cli or from adept).
> 

What happens if you change to a different mirror?