My friend Arun Khan told about this great way to improve the download speed of packages and updates for Ubuntu users.

Start Synpatic, go to Settings-Repositories.

Under Ubuntu Software tab, there is “Download from:” and next to that it will say Main Server/Server for India/etc. Click on that and select other.

Now on the right there is a button which says Select Best Server. Click on that.

Synaptic will ping all the servers, run a couple of other tests and automatically select the fastest server.

Now Click on Choose Server - Close,

You are done!, Next time you run an update or try to install any software, it will be faster.

Happy updating :)

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