Hey, I have also hit this problem. My apt is downloading a 110MB file quite fine, but after 120 seconds it hits the timeout, even though the connection is not stalled. I had to increase the timeout to 1200 seconds to be able to download this package in my connection. The bug has apparently been reported in Ubuntu, as well: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/354972 Thanks, -- Gustavo Noronha <kov@debian.org> Debian Project