Pkg Download Slowness

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Wed, 11/26/08, Pat <pat.mysterywriter at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Pat <pat.mysterywriter at gmail.com>
> 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, 10:48 AM
> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > --- On Wed, 11/26/08, Cybe R. Wizard
> <cybe_r_wizard at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> 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:
> >>     
> >>> 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.
> >
> >
Pat, is this slowness due to a slow mirror or because you are running dialup instead of broadband. If you are on broadband then try what I mentioned in an earlier reply to a response to my post. Mario just reiterated it again recently or maybe he way replying to this also. Don't know since I've erased it already. To repeat, you can do it in synaptic or software sources and probably adept but haven't looked yet.  click the download arrow in SS, select other then best server for the USA or whatever country you live in. In synaptic you have to click settings, respositories first to bring up software sources then everything is the same.
As far a how Cybe. R. selects a mirror that's in the dark time, I don't know yet but haven't read all the list mail yet. Hope he responds.
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net