Update Manager Hanging

[Derek Broughton]

NoOp wrote:

> Regarding your work connection: my guess is that the issue is probably
> due to the fact that update-manager attempts to take the entire
> bandwidth of any link that it connects to. See:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/193558
>  [Wishlist] Include limit-rate bandwidth option
> 
> When you attempt to use update-manager from work, it sucks up the full
> bandwidth and your work network settings probably see this and kill your
> download.

As I said, it doesn't seem to matter which apt program I use (though I never
actually use update-manager, apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, adept all have
the same issue), so it probably isn't actually an update-manager issue, but
I don't understand how update-manager is any more capable of sucking up all
the bandwidth than wget.  If it would actually "kill" the download it would
be way more friendly than stalling permanently...
-- 
derek