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We have cable broadband at home. It took 30 minutes to download a Linux dvd iso and around 10 minutes to download the Ubuntu cd iso. That's fast. Yet, once Ubuntu is installed and auto-updates kick in, it's glacially slow:


Sorry to rain on people's parades. But, Microsoft's and Apple's servers are nowhere this slow. This simply sucks.

Servers shmervers.

Maybe you can further substantiate this with a similar screenshot where XP SP3 is being downloaded? The installed XP should be a freshly-installed SP2 version.

Or maybe stock Vista, then download SP1.

Then time this: Start from the time you update synaptic until all the updates are installed.

With Vista: Start the timer when you start updating until SP1 has been installed.

With XP: Start the timer when you start updating until SP3 has been installed.

This should even up the playing field.