[plug] Debian upgrade

[Anthony Jones]

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On Thursday 06 December 2001 15:20, craig at postnewspapers.com.au wrote:
> > One thing I have found is that sometimes the iinet mirror (is this the
> > only one in Perth?) is slow to get updated.  This can be a pain if it
> > there ends up being a broken version of something on there.  On the main
> > Debian site they usually fix anything that's wrong within a day or so.
>
> ftp://ftp.uwa.edu.au/mirrors/linux/debian
>
> and iinet has a debian mirror!?! I'm with iiNet at work (ADSL)
> and I've been using mirror.aarnet.edu.au and frp.uwa.edu.au (screams).

Yep - iinet has a mirror, that's why I chose them as an ISP.  Most ISPs have 
useless content that you aren't interested in.  iinet has 80% of what I 
download.  The only thing is that they still charge for traffic to their 
mirror on ADSL.

> That said, the mirror on aarnet is really badly maintained. Packages.gz
> for sid gets updated before all the new packages have been downloaded,
> and old packages are deleted before the new ones have been made
> available. Frustrating, especially for of all places the aarnet
> mirror! Don't try to download their woody cdimages either, they seem to
> be rebuilt at some time during the night, overwriting the eariler image.
> So unless you've got a REALLY fast connection and know when they do the
> switch, you're likely to get 3/4 of a cd image.

Does iinet offer an ADSL connection which you can feasibly download CD 
images?  I thought they only offer 500MB per month or so.  Not much good if 
you want to download 650MB * 6 = 3.9GB.
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