slow network with apt-get

[vinnywright]

it seams to me that the network speeds I am getting when I do my updates with apt-get are slower than in my other installs.

hear in 16.04 (net upgraded from 15.10) I get an avrage of 84 KB/s and in all the rest (14.04 both Ubuntu and Kubuntu Debian-8-KDE and Netrunner-17) I can get over a 1000 KB/s .

any one else ,,,,,,,,

I may do a clean install on the official release to this partition .

VINNY

[Snowhog]

Download speeds aren't going to be affected by the release of Kubuntu one is using. Try changing the server that is being used.

[Teunis]

Indeed, it is largely server dependent.
I've just done some major 16.04 updates from two different servers and both worked fine.

PS, it (16.04) looks better with each update!

[vinnywright]

IDN ,,,,,,,,all my installs are using the server for the US ,,,,but still their is a noticeable difference in the time + I am getting a lot of hash sum errors and half to run apt-get agin and maby agin before it completes.

VINNY

[Teunis]

There isn't 'the' US server, check a different one!

[vinnywright]

There isn't 'the' US server, check a different one!

Get:15 http://[COLOR=#ff0000]us.archive[/COLOR].ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [1,456 kB]

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VINNY

[oshunluvr]

Good point Vinny. If you use Muon, you actually see "Server for the US" as a selection. However, this is misleading. If you select "Other servers..." there's a list of more than 30-40 servers that reside in the USA. It should probably say "Default US server" rather than "THE server..."

[vinnywright]

Good point Vinny. If you use Muon, you actually see "Server for the US" as a selection. However, this is misleading. If you select "Other servers..." there's a list of more than 30-40 servers that reside in the USA. It should probably say "Default US server" rather than "THE server..."

Aaaaa see I did not know their were more choices(yes I do) ,,,,,,I never change/set it in any of my installs so the one it's reading from must be a default kind of thing but I will check and see .

VINNY

[vinnywright]

awsome ,,,,,,,,,,,,,glad I ran my Pi hole ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,lol couldent resist on Pi day

but realy I wint to muon>settings>configure software sources clicked the dropdown on "download from" and selected other ,,,,,,,,in the window that pops up their is a "Select best server"button.

I think O hell why not ,,,,,,and click it .

it proceeds to ping all the servers on the list and picked this one for me ,,,,,,,,,and O ya thats much better

Get:57 http://mirrors.advancedhosters.com/ubuntu xenial-proposed/main amd64 ruby2.3 amd64 2.3.0-4ubuntu3 [40.9 kB]                                                       
[COLOR=#ff0000]Fetched 35.2 MB in 20s (1,734 kB/s) [/COLOR]

VINNY

[Teunis]

[oshunluvr]

Funny, I've never done that Vinny. Since we're so close together (geographically speaking ) I switched to the same server. Good tip!

[Snowhog]

For me, it selected http://ubuntu.osuosl.org/ubuntu

[Teunis]

It's partially because I'm travelling to unusual places that I've gotten used to this ping service for finding the best server for that moment.

But even today being at home I had an authentication error on the usual Dutch server and reverting to a different one fixed the problem.
I'm pretty sure the original server will be fixed soon.

[vinnywright]

It's partially because I'm travelling to unusual places that I've gotten used to this ping service for finding the best server for that moment.

I had no idea it was even their ,,,,I new you could select a server ,,,,but did not know this "find the best one" thing was hear .

Like I said I always just leave the default ,,,,,,,,,so I would assume all the installs are using the same one ,,,,,so should act the same ,,,,,But in 16.04 ,,,,,,it was a lot slower.

VINNY