Ubuntu Main Server going extremelly slow

[Kosimo]

What's going on with Ubuntu Main servers? They are really low performance from Catalonia. Anyone else is having extremely slow transfer rates when installing software or updates from main servers?

[Half-Left]

Yep, the simple way is just not to use them and pick another.

[miwaypet]

Try this. Go to Synaptic Package Manager>Settings>repositories.

This displays the Software Sources utility.

In the server box dropdown list select: other.

In new window look in upper right hand corner- click find best.

This will ping all available servers. It will find the best. Select it. Reload your sources. And it should be much faster.

Hope this helps.

[eragon100]

Yeah from the Netherlands here. There are six servers for this tiny country. I picked ftp.tiscali.nl instead of the main server and it flies. Tiscali is an ISP which apparently houses ubuntu repo's

[FuturePilot]

The US ones are slow as well. Even timed out on me once.

[MemoryDump]

Try this. Go to Synaptic Package Manager>Settings>repositories.

This displays the Software Sources utility.

In the server box dropdown list select: other.

In new window look in upper right hand corner- click find best.

This will ping all available servers. It will find the best. Select it. Reload your sources. And it should be much faster.

Hope this helps.

I did this and it made a world of difference! Found another mirror faster than my previous one! woot

[Kosimo]

Looks like the problem is on Main and US servers.
Choosing servers from Barcelona everything works good again.

[fredfjr]

Try this. Go to Synaptic Package Manager>Settings>repositories.

This displays the Software Sources utility.

In the server box dropdown list select: other.

In new window look in upper right hand corner- click find best.

This will ping all available servers. It will find the best. Select it. Reload your sources. And it should be much faster.

Hope this helps.

I know I'm probably only being paranoid by asking this, but I guess it can't hurt to ask...

If I change my repository to something other than the main Ubuntu server will I get stuff like "Not Authenticated" warnings on updates and such? I don't want to risk lowering my security and such for the sake of faster speeds.

[sports fan Matt]

The real question is WHY? Why is the main server going slow? WE are past the HH flip by a week or more

[Foster Grant]

Try this. Go to Synaptic Package Manager>Settings>repositories.

This displays the Software Sources utility.

In the server box dropdown list select: other.

In new window look in upper right hand corner- click find best.

This will ping all available servers. It will find the best. Select it. Reload your sources. And it should be much faster.

Hope this helps.

I did that, and it selected a mirror that was not working. Switched to the nearest one to my house (a university system) and things picked up immensely.

The Medibuntu archives are still horribly slow, though. I don't know of any mirrors for those repositories.