Re: [Hampshire] slow source lsit

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