Upgrading online from (X)ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04LTS

[edwardp-mh2Nk+tgbQM at public.gmane.org (edwardp-mh2Nk+tgbQM at public.gmane.org)]

Richard Chonak wrote:
> On 04/30/2010 07:55 PM, edwardp-mh2Nk+tgbQM at public.gmane.org wrote:
>    
>> Has anyone encountered any issues yet with an online upgrade of Ubuntu
>> from 9.10 to 10.04LTS?  I intend to upgrade my three systems this way.
>>      
>
> Downloads from the package servers were very slow yesterday and this
> morning, even for ordinary bug-fix updates, so I expect that upgrades
> may fail with timeouts until traffic subsides.
>
>    

I've always found it beneficial to upgrade something like this, late in 
the evening or early in the morning.  I recall back in the dialup days 
with Windows 98, it would take forever to download an upgrade to 
anything, whether it was Netscape, Internet Explorer or another software 
program, when downloaded during the day.  Then when I tried the same 
during the early morning, the download only took a fraction of the time...

I upgraded my laptop this morning and the downloads from the update 
server took only 10 minutes, the rest of the time was the laptop 
upgrading/removing as required.  So far (at least on the laptop), no 
problems yet.  :-)