Slow upgrading and downloading

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 04 Jul 2016 06:58:50 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
>Maybe you are connected to a slow server, but that is only a wild
>guess.

14.04 and especially 15.10 are close to their end of life [1], so it
likely could be, that some servers are much used.

Using apt-get from command line, I've got no issues with
http://de.archive.ubuntu.com and http://security.ubuntu.com when
updating the indexes for 15.10.

Regards,
Ralf

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

[root at moonstudio ~]# date;lsb_release -r;ubuntu-support-status 
Mon Jul  4 09:13:00 CEST 2016
Release:	15.10
Support status summary of 'moonstudio':

You have 1441 packages (86.7%) supported until July 2016 (9m)

You have 15 packages (0.9%) that can not/no-longer be downloaded
You have 207 packages (12.4%) that are unsupported

Run with --show-unsupported, --show-supported or --show-all to see more details