Do you miss netselect?
Yeah me too.A lot.
Other Distros have tools to select the fastest mirror... Debian has netselect-apt, Arch has reflector, i could go on but why wollow in sadness?
Instead, i did a thing! -> mirrorselect
How is this different from other tools?
- The built-in mirror optimization requires a desktop environment. This doesn't.
- netselect-apt isn't available on Ubuntu anymore. Yeah you can get the deb and install it, but its broken anyway.
- The Ubuntu mirror service:
- Doesn't return the same information every time its called
- Only tells half the story (the half their server can see).
But, importantly, mirrorselect does a few things that other tools aren't doing:
- Testing TCP latency through an HTTP HEAD request, including the responsiveness of the HTTP server.
- Traditional ICMP/Ping testing doesn't do this.
- Actual download speed testing.
- (IKR? Crazy that one would use download speed as a key metric to evaluate download speed. For some reason other tools don't actually do this).
- Automatic Country Selection (If you're lazy)
- Manual Country Selection (If you love privacy)
- Multi-stage ranking process: First TCP latency, then download speed.
You can find it here: