Slow Update manager how to fix?
Posted by humbolt on May 11th, 2008 
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Am I doing something wrong?
My Update Manager is downloading at a rate of about 1Mb/day! The System Monitor shows that about 100 to 400 bytes are downloaded every 5 seconds or so. I have no trouble using e-mail or Firefox at normal speed.
Is there anything I can do to improve things?
I’ve installed Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on an ancient Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 laptop. (Pentium III/700MHz CPU, 128MB PC100 SDRAM)
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May 10th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
You can try to use this guide hope this helps
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-select-fastest-mirror-in-ubuntu.html
May 11th, 2008 at 8:45 am
I was going to suggest the same thing as admin, your best bet is to switch mirrors, although that hasn’t helped me much. I thought it was just Ubuntu’s server’s being overloaded by the Hardy release, but we’re far enough past that now, I don’t know what the deal is.
May 24th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
With great difficulty I managed to move from Gutsy to Hardy. However I am having some issues. The /etc/hosts file is showing the lkocal host as 127.0.0.1 - is this correct ?
how do I log into root ?
Thanks
June 7th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Its not lkocal host, its “local” host
June 7th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
root has a random password choosen at the time of installation of Ubuntu. And don’t ask how to know the root password.,. its different for different installations. You need to change the root password from your account by getting to System > Administration > Users and Groups and then login to the root.