Update Problems (8.04 LTS)

[Peter Baily]

Regularly I seem to have failures with stalling during the file transfer 
on attempting to download updates.   Here is today's error report:
W: Failed to fetch 
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/h/hplip/hplip-data_2.8.2-0ubuntu8.1_all.deb
W: Failed to fetch 
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/h/hplip/hplip_2.8.2-0ubuntu8.1_i386.deb
W: Failed to fetch 
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/language-pack-en/language-pack-en_8.04+20081103_all.deb
W: Failed to fetch 
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/language-pack-gnome-en/language-pack-gnome-en_8.04+20081103_all.deb
W: Failed to fetch 
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libx/libxml2/libxml2_2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.3_i386.deb
W: Failed to fetch 
http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/pool/main/w/wine/wine_1.1.9~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
W: Failed to fetch 
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.0.18.2-1ubuntu2.1_i386.deb
W: Failed to fetch 
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/python-apt/python-apt_0.7.4ubuntu7.4_i386.deb
W: Failed to fetch 
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.4-5ubuntu9.1_i386.deb
W: Failed to fetch 
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/app-install-data-commercial/app-install-data-commercial_9.4_all.deb
W: Failed to fetch 
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xulrunner-1.9/xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support_1.9.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1_i386.deb
W: Failed to fetch 
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xulrunner-1.9/xulrunner-1.9_1.9.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1_i386.deb
W: Failed to fetch 
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox-3.0/firefox-3.0-gnome-support_3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1_i386.deb
W: Failed to fetch 
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox-3.0/firefox-3.0_3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1_i386.deb
W: Failed to fetch 
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox-3.0/firefox_3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1_all.deb
W: Failed to fetch 
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/firefox-3.0/firefox-gnome-support_3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1_all.deb
W: Failed to fetch 
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/foo2zjs/foo2zjs_20071205-0ubuntu3.1_i386.deb
W: Failed to fetch 
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/h/hplip/hpijs_2.8.2+2.8.2-0ubuntu8.1_i386.deb
W: Failed to fetch 
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libx/libxml2/libxml2-utils_2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.3_i386.deb
W: Failed to fetch 
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libx/libxml2/python-libxml2_2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.3_i386.deb
W: Failed to fetch 
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-intel/xserver-xorg-video-intel_2.2.1-1ubuntu13.8_i386.deb
 
Am I doing something wrong?   Can I prevent the problem?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.