On Sunday 27 July 2003 12:41 am, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
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.
Thanks Joe and Richard, That cleared things up for me. -- Franklin Maurer Using SuSE 8.2 Pro