Looks like a Canonical servers misconfiguration, possibly hitting a bug in the apt load balancing algorithm. Currently, the solution is to configure Muon/apt to use a fixed mirror. Please see this thread for details:
http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?58918-apt-get-downloads- extremely-slow -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/977906 Title: Updating packages stalls To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/977906/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
