New install, horrendous download speeds

K2712 · 2006-10-12 03:07:42

My root hard drive failed about a month and a half ago, and after finally getting around to replacing it, I reinstalled arch.

When I went to update, I noticed my download speeds average 4.5 kb/s.

All of my hardware is the same(hard drive only exception), and my down speeds last month were excellent. It's not my network as I'm typing this on my other machine, and it is fine.

I tried netserver and pacman-optimize, to no avail.

Any ideas?

thibdb13 · 2006-10-12 07:09:04

Which server are you connected to?
Very often this problem appears with servers that are no so closed from the place where you are upgrading.

ezzetabi · 2006-10-12 20:55:27

check the files in /etc/pacman.d/ and resort the servers.

Bogart · 2006-10-13 14:13:45

Yes, it could be you're connecting to slow servers, but in case it's not that, did you previously have a kernel <2.6.17? Some changes were introduced in this kernel and subsequent regarding window scaling that give many problems. Look at this thread.

K2712 · 2006-10-13 18:43:16

Thanks for replies..

I tried several different servers, and still the same problem. I did just upgrade my kernel to 2.6.18, I'll check the other thread.

I did finally get xorg and kde installed, and my network speeds are fine with konsole and firefox, hopefully someone smarter than me can tell me why.

twiistedkaos · 2006-10-13 20:14:18

K2712 wrote:

Thanks for replies..
I tried several different servers, and still the same problem. I did just upgrade my kernel to 2.6.18, I'll check the other thread.
I did finally get xorg and kde installed, and my network speeds are fine with konsole and firefox, hopefully someone smarter than me can tell me why.

It still sounds like you are getting bad servers. I'd try to resort them acouple more times and piss around with them.

pelle.k · 2006-10-13 20:18:58

sortmirrors?

twiistedkaos · 2006-10-14 01:53:44

There once was a program / script I used to ping all th e servers that pacman uses in its database and sort them by ping, I no longer remember what that program was though.

yankees26 · 2006-10-14 02:11:59

Twistedchaos, I believe pelle.k has what you said: sortmirrors.

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#1 2006-10-12 03:07:42

New install, horrendous download speeds

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