Pkg Download Slowness

[Pat]

Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> --- On Wed, 11/26/08, Cybe R. Wizard <cybe_r_wizard at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>> From: Cybe R. Wizard <cybe_r_wizard at earthlink.net>
>> Subject: Re: Pkg Download Slowness
>> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2008, 12:31 AM
>> Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net>  said:
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>>> Anyone have any suggestions on a fast mirror for my
>>>       
>> location.
>>
>> I never rely on a server being near me but pick one where
>> it is the
>> middle of the night/early morning no matter what time it is
>> here.  They
>> invariably work pretty quickly.
>>
>>     
> Understandable, but just exactly how you do this with your apt sources.list?  I must be missing something about this.
>
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
>   

> I'd like to know that too. I get downloads of updates and have no
> choice in where it comes from, and I often get it timing out and/or
> taking well over an hour to download a few updates. I'm trying to do
> one now which started out with 17 downloads and I've been trying to get
> it to finish since 1:00 AM last night. It's now almost 12 hours later
> and I'm still downloading the last 12.
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>
> Pat Brown
>
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