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twiistedkaos

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Registered: 2006-05-20

Posts: 666

Pacman going slow.

Around 3-5 days ago, I noticed pacman is downloading slower than normal. Average 70KB/s compared to my old 350-500kb/s. I am using the same mirriors I always have, I even tried the pacman 3 rankmirrors script to find a better mirror and yet I get the same speed. Any ideas?

bones

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From: Brisbane

Registered: 2006-03-24

Posts: 322

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Re: Pacman going slow.

You may have already checked, but if my speeds slow down the first thing I look at is my isp's homepage and see if I've used all of my allocated download limit, as I'm limited to 10gigs a month after which they slow me down to a crawl instead of charging extra. Don't know if your's do this or not but it could be worth checking cause I seem to regularly blow my limit all the time. Just a thought.

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twiistedkaos

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Registered: 2006-05-20

Posts: 666

Re: Pacman going slow.

Hmm, I use Comcast, not sure about their bandwidth limit to be exact. I'll call them tomarrow since I don't have an account on their website and see if I used all my bandwidth.