In this tutorial, I show how to select the fastest update mirror to speed up the process of updating Ubuntu.
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Don’t use FTP mirror or it will hang. FTP is slow and colleges limit connections. Http is more reliable. Georgia Tech is closest mirror to me but it’s FTP. Glad to see Ubuntu finds fastest mirror, but if I’m not mistaken, Debian’s repo does this automatically, but you can change it you want.