Automated fastest mirror selector for Debian

Having a gigabit connection and choosing a far-away mirror causing long time to update system is always frustrating. Its also hard to figure out the nearest mirror for every server, when you are dealing with servers deployed world-wide.

Luckily for Debian, there is a mirror selector which automatically finds the nearest one and uses it while working with apt.

To use it, replace the currently configured Debian mirror in sources.list with the following address:

http://httpredir.debian.org/debian

e.g. for Debian jessie

deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-free

Its also available for Backports and older versions. More details at http://http.debian.net/

Tagged with: Debian, jessie, mirror