How to select best download server without GUI?

[Grey08]

How do i select the best download server in Server Edition without the GUI?

What is the command line?


Best regards
Grey08

[smeerbartje]

How do i select the best download server in Server Edition without the GUI?

What is the command line?


Best regards
Grey08

What exactly do you mean? You're browsing on the console? Or via Lynx?

[cdenley]

What type of download server? FTP, HTTP? Are you looking for a repository mirror? The only way to know which is fastest is to actually download data from the servers and compare, unless you went by geographic location and assumed closer meant faster. How would you determine the best download server with a GUI?

[Grey08]

Ubuntu Software Tab - "Download from" drop down menu - Other - Select Best Server

This little known utility will do a pretty good job of picking a good server based on the response time it gets from them.


that's what i saw from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ownload+server, #6 thread.

Hope this explained me.

Best regards,
Grey08

[kevin11951]

Ubuntu Software Tab - "Download from" drop down menu - Other - Select Best Server

This little known utility will do a pretty good job of picking a good server based on the response time it gets from them.


that's what i saw from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ownload+server, #6 thread.

Hope this explained me.

Best regards,
Grey08

you could ping all the servers that are close to you, and pick the one with the best response time.

[Grey08]

you could ping all the servers that are close to you, and pick the one with the best response time.

But how do i do this if i m in Server Edition without any Graphical User Interface? Means that i m working under text based environment.

[Spikerok]

what you can do is to check your network settings...

type "nano /etc/network/interfaces" to see your settings
to leave nano program press on "Alt+X"

if you are using PuTTy or some other software to access your server just paste details.

[Spikerok]

you will get list of devices they are listed next way
auto ...
iface ...

if you did not added any special network software on your pc you will have some thing like next:

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
        address 192.168.0.100
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        network 192.168.0.0
        broadcast 192.168.0.255
        gateway 192.168.0.1 

if you have next type of of config you can try changing

iface eth0 inet static 

on

iface eth0 inet dhcp 

should work..
if you have other way round, go on your server and change

iface eth0 inet dhcp 

on

iface eth0 inet static
        address 192.168.0.100
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        network 192.168.0.0
        broadcast 192.168.0.255
        gateway 192.168.0.1 

you can modify ip's, I'm not sure how correct i'm, but this problem can happen with routers, some routers can not have static ip's and are being given ip's automatically.

Network changes should be made manually, because if error happened you will need to figure out what ip is set on your server machine.

to find out what local ip your server have use next command

ifconfig 

it will tell you info on your network devices
you do not need root rights to use it

[Grey08]

Thanks Spikerok, appreciate your reply, but does this help to improve my download speed from the archieve server?(like when i type sudo apt-get install gedit, the speed could go up to 60kbps instead of now only 5kbps)

What i m trying to solve is onlyget the fastes download speed from archieve server.

Best regards,
Grey08

[dfreer]

Something like apt-spy perhaps?
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Apt-spy

It never seemed to pull the right servers for me, but I only spent like 5 minutes playing with it, YMMV.