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 🙂
I guess ubuntu HH chooses the best and nearest apt source during using the selected locale information and sets sources.list entries to http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
thanks… that was great!