On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 07:53:28PM -0500, Charles MacDonald wrote: > I have recently started to configure a new laptop with Kubuntu 8.10 > > I have been going slow, asking for a coupple of packeges a day, and it > seems to keep trying to get them for me from ca.archve.ubuntu.com/ > Sorry to come to this late. I've also noticed that ca.archive.ubuntu.com is slow. I've replaced it with gulus.usherbrooke.ca and typically get downloads at over 500kb/s. Michael