"Select the best server" *never* selects the best server

[Sambit Bikas Pal]

You can try the other servers from Taiwan, most of them gives great speed.

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Sambit Bikas Pal
<sambitbikaspal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Use http://ftp.twaren.net
> It gives the best speed compared to most other servers.
>
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 4:16 PM, David Curtis <dcurtis at uniserve.com> wrote:
>> Ashish Yadav wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am using Ubuntu 8.04 and trying to update the system.
>>>
>>> Whatever server I select by "Syetem->Administration->Software Sources"
>>> and then "Download from->Other" and "Select best server"; always
>>> points to a randomely selected server from where either nothing gets
>>> downloaded at all or I get a speed of 5-6 kbps.
>>>
>>> Is there a reliable server which I can choose to download from, I am in India.
>>>
>> If I were you I would try the Indian server (ftp.iitm.ac.in) and some
>> others geographically nearest to you, China/Uzbekistan. The 'Select best
>> server' test uses ping. IMHO not the best way to determine a FTP or HTTP
>> server's capability/capacity or how busy it is.
>>
>> You could also try using traceroute with the lft package, normal
>> traceroute is basically useless now. But again, it's not going to tell
>> you how busy the server is or what its capabilities are, just the number
>> of hops between you and the server and the time taken for those gateways
>> to respond.
>>
>> Dave
>>
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MS 3rd Year
Indian Institute Of Science Education & Research Kolkata,
HC 7, Sector-III
Salt Lake,
Kolkata-700106

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