Franklin Maurer wrote, On 07/27/2003 09:43 AM:
Are the mirrors designed to speed up the downloads, by allowing packages to be downloaded from three servers at one time, rather than waiting for the ftp.gwdg.de server for every package? Or is it more for redundancy, like in this situation where I should have disabled ftp.gwdg.de in settings > repositories and been able to continue my downloading?
I can't say what the answer is to your questions, but I know I have set up my sources list to get different components from all three servers, and it does indeed downloads from all three simultaneously (different things from each), and is effectively quite a bit faster. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.