Best Mirror Server Selection for Ubuntu

In Ubuntu every packages are installed on-line only. Installing packages off-line needs more exercise but installing packages off-line is also possible. As the community of Ubuntu is strong, there are its mirror servers in 83 countries. And all together there are hundreds of mirror servers from where we can download packages anytime.
In this blog, two general tips will be illustrated:

1. How to change the server from main server to country  image server.
2. How to select the best server for your region.

Generally the best mirror server for us will be the server available in our own country. In my country, Nepal its hosted by Nepal Telecommunications. So right after the installation I'll have to change the server from to Nepal. To do so:

1. In System Settings
2.  Software and Updates
3.  Ubuntu Software : Download From
   Initially the download server is set to the main server. Here we will need to select our country server. To do so:
   
   Select Download from Other Now you can see all the 83 country servers(Mirror Servers). Select one server from your country. This will change the server and from now onwards your download speed will be fast.

Sometimes your country servers can have problems in downloading packages.  You will be facing unable to fetch some archives... error as shown below:

root@techjhola:/home/techjhola# apt-get install guake
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libglade2-0 libvte-common libvte9 python-glade2 python-vte
Suggested packages:
python-gtk2-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
guake libglade2-0 libvte-common libvte9 python-glade2 python-vte
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 137 not upgraded.
Need to get 472 kB/643 kB of archives.
After this operation, 3,118 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Err http://np.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main libglade2-0 amd64 1:2.6.4-2
  403  Forbidden
Err http://np.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main libvte-common all 1:0.28.2-5ubuntu1
  403  Forbidden
Err http://np.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main libvte9 amd64 1:0.28.2-5ubuntu1
  403  Forbidden
Err http://np.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main python-vte amd64 1:0.28.2-5ubuntu1
  403  Forbidden
Err http://np.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main python-glade2 amd64 2.24.0-3ubuntu3
  403  Forbidden
E: Failed to fetch http://np.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libg/libglade2/libglade2-0_2.6.4-2_amd64.deb  403  Forbidden

E: Failed to fetch http://np.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/v/vte/libvte-common_0.28.2-5ubuntu1_all.deb  403  Forbidden

E: Failed to fetch http://np.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/v/vte/libvte9_0.28.2-5ubuntu1_amd64.deb  403  Forbidden

E: Failed to fetch http://np.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/v/vte/python-vte_0.28.2-5ubuntu1_amd64.deb  403  Forbidden

E: Failed to fetch http://np.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/pygtk/python-glade2_2.24.0-3ubuntu3_amd64.deb  403  Forbidden

E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?  

In such case you need to either try the last option displayed in the error panel:
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

If this doesn't work as well, you will need to select the best server for you. To do so, after you see the list of mirror server with country names . On its right top corner you can see:

• Select Best Server This will run a short diagnostics and within a short time will find the best mirror server for you.
• Select that server and keep downloading from that server.

You country server will again come to operation in a few days. In my case I had same error displayed above. I changed the server from country server to Best Server assigned by my system. And again after two days the downloading was okey.