Slow connection during installation of packages

Added on Jun 6th, 2012 and marked as apt install server

Add the following lines at the top of /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt precise main restricted universe multiverse
deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt precise-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt precise-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt precise-security main restricted universe multiverse

Do an update and upgrade:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade