Ways to keep my Debian box updated over dialup 3 KBsec

There are few things out there, but you'll have to look into them on your own. Apt-proxy is good for, like, a group of machines (one downloads from net, others get it from the 'master'). See look into are apt-cacher, which seems to do something similar, and apt-move which could be helpful too. Another thing for you might be netselect-apt, which builds a sources.list of the fastest mirrors for you. None of these have I tried or looked into too deeply, but they have come by my eyes in the past week. Talked to a teacher about setting up the apt-proxy to maintain lab systems more network-efficiently.

I would bet that there is a way to make a "mirror" of only what your system presently has installed on a set of CDs, and then take that to the broadband locale and maintain keeping that mirror updated. If you have some hard drive space, you may even manage to keep two "mirrors" synced by taking only the diffs home on CD when need be. It may be a little work to set up but with some creativity and a little "light" reading on the APT system, I would not be surprised if there is a way.

Good luck, and - as always - report back any successes and-or methods for others to benefit. Also, you may want to haunt some #Debian on freenode or other channels on IRC and see if you can snag an apt guru for some q & a.

Peace, Morningdew