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Ubuntu mirrors already slow as sludge - and Karmic is still 6 days away

Posted by Steven_Rosenber on · 1 comment
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There have been a few upgrades a day popping into the Update Manager on my Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope, for those keeping score on the animal names) installation, and have you noticed what I've noticed? Those updates are downloading very, very slowly.

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montezuma ·
I don't know if this would help or not but on update manager there is an option to test all possible mirrors and find the fastest. Worked for me. I am getting 2000KB/s downloads from both columbia and mit. The updates are delayed but then who cares about a day or so?

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