Pkg Download Slowness

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Wed, 11/26/08, Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:

> From: Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org>
> Subject: Re: Pkg Download Slowness
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2008, 12:37 PM
> On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 11:48 -0500, Pat wrote:
> > > 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. 
> 
> You can set the mirror that you use by opening menu System
> ->
> Administration -> Software Sources. On the first tab,
> there is a menu
> "Download from". When you open that and select
> "Other", it will show you
> the full list, along with a button labeled "Select
> best server" (which,
> however, uses ping times AFAIK and is not always very
> reliable in really
> picking the "best" one.)
> 
> 
Mario, thanks for repeating what I said in a reply to my thread. More people will see it now and benefit from it.=:)  YMBR, about the just ping thing as I've heard it mentioned before. BFWIW, as I mentioned in the reply, my download rate increased back to the 210 KB/sec I was used to getting compared to only around 10-40 KB/sec I was getting at Utexas. This may slow down over time as it was only a few downloads but the Utexas sight hasn't given those rates in over two weeks.  YMMV,
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net