I recently upgraded my working Ubuntu 7.10 to Ubuntu 8.04. I hadn’t used the computer in about a month, so there were quite a few updates to do. Namely 83 updates.<\/p>\n
It was flying at anywhere from 300KB\/sec to 950KB\/sec on most of the packages, but then would falter down to 4000bytes\/sec (and sometimes even less). I figured it was the Repositories getting nailed, or my network connection becoming unruly.<\/p>\n But, after searching for a while, I found the answer: the us.archive.ubuntu servers are SLOW. Doesn’t matter that the servers reside in the same country I’m located.<\/p>\n Edit the \/etc\/apt\/sources.list file to remove the “us.”<\/p>\n Anywhere it says “us.archive.ubuntu” remove the us., then it should say “http:\/\/archive.ubuntu” etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I recently upgraded my working Ubuntu 7.10 to Ubuntu 8.04. I hadn’t used the computer in about a month, so there were quite a few updates to do. Namely 83 updates. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade It was flying at anywhere from 300KB\/sec to 950KB\/sec on most of the packages, but then would falter … Continue reading Ubuntu Repositories Download Speed<\/span> sudo apt-get update<\/code>
\nsudo apt-get upgrade<\/code><\/p>\ncd \/etc\/apt<\/code>
\ncp \/sources.list sources.list.old<\/code>
\nnano sources.list<\/code><\/p>\n