Comments on: How To select fastest mirror in Ubuntu

By: Luqman Al- Hakeem

Luqman Al- Hakeem — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:49:04 +0000

Thanksssssssssssssss to u

By: ahsan

ahsan — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:12:55 +0000

May ALLAH bless you! Ameen!!

By: me

me — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 12:19:43 +0000

Just a pain with linux, why can’t ubuntu do it by default ? I know yum select fastest mirror if you have defined, this definitioin should come from ubuntu, was pain today for me when I tried to checkout the desktop ubuntu and update .. with 100mbps speed it was downloading in lb’s from US..

Thanks for this solution !

By: Marco Hiirata

Marco Hiirata — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:51:16 +0000

TKS a mill!

By: Shahrukh

Shahrukh — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:42:38 +0000

Thankyou Man!!!!!…. it works great…. Speed rokxxxxx… my download speed is now 125 kb/s that was 40 kb/s before only…

By: latif

latif — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:05:45 +0000

Thanks for share.
Works amazing with me too.
local Server Indonesia

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 20:39:47 +0000

I was on the point of de-installing Ubuntu for the simple reason that I was sick of those ridiculously slow updates: whenever I booted up my laptop and saw that there were updates waiting to be installed, I used to feel like throwing the thing out of the window, because I knew it would mean that I would get no work done for the next couple of hours while the package files drip-drip-dripped onto my hard drive.

And now… well, it’s still pretty slow to be honest: 246 kB/s on a 100 MB/s connection. But that’s WAY better than before. So thank you because I am no longer on the point of giving up on Ubuntu.

I wonder if there’s a way to set up Synaptic to do this automatically before it downloads anything? After all, the “best” mirror is going to vary over time.

Anyway, even if that’s not possible, it’s not hard to follow the simple advice on this page, so thanks again.

By: frank

frank — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:11:31 +0000

Hey, amazing turnaround! My usual updates with all the extra ppas I have took somewhere between a minute to two minutes. Now it’s just blazing at 15s-20s. I always wanted to know how to select the best mirror and I’m glad I found your page. To the previous poster Mike, it selects by pinging all the mirrors. Maybe the servers geographically near you were strained and couldn’t produce a ‘normal’ ping. If in doubt, retest the servers, test and repeat until you find the BEST one available.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:14:58 +0000

I live in the USA; this selected a server in New Zealand…

By: Joshua

Joshua — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 09:10:28 +0000

man you rock! this helped me ! woooh!

thanks dude!

By: Michael Bos

Michael Bos — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 11:34:47 +0000

Thanks a lot,

This works like a charm for me and my friend!

Cheers

By: fool

fool — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:11:52 +0000

thanks for writing this article. for the curious, the steps above, at least as of ubuntu 10.04, will update not just your synaptic configuration but also your apt-get and aptitude configuration as well, so fear not if you don’t otherwise use synaptic--this will still work for you!

it also leaves you in a freshly ‘aptitude update’-d state, so you are ready to run ‘aptitude safe-upgrade’ after you run through the above steps.

By: tjapko smits

tjapko smits — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:21:30 +0000

man, incredible advise. finally I can donwload my upgrade at max spèed.

By: ajay

ajay — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:22:48 +0000

thanks. very useful.

By: Nialaghr

Nialaghr — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:08:51 +0000

I have the same problem with the “no suitable download server was found…” I can browse the web, get the updates (sudo apt-get update) but can’t click on “Select Best Server” or install anything trough the app center.

By: Valeria

Valeria — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:49:28 +0000

Hi I have a problem becuase I get the message: no suitable download server was found,,,, check your internet conection. but my conection is fine what can be wrong? thank you

By: noren

noren — Sat, 22 May 2010 07:18:07 +0000

is there a way to do this from command line i am using ubuntu minimal setup

By: Rohith

Rohith — Tue, 18 May 2010 17:55:34 +0000

works great for india

By: Asish

Asish — Tue, 18 May 2010 12:51:57 +0000

Great, i like it.

By: emmvie

emmvie — Thu, 13 May 2010 20:32:21 +0000

Absolutely chuffed, great advice, thank you.