I also continue to see this issue in 12.04. Like @ender46 I have my proxy set up in Network Settings, apt.conf and /etc/wgetrc and also as an environment variable for root. Despite this, when flashplugin- installer and ttf-mscorefonts-installer try to download files the downloads time out.
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