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Keessince1988

Member

From: The Netherlands, Amsterdam

Registered: 2010-01-26

Posts: 6

Dutch mirrors are useless?

Hi,

I'm new to the Arch Linux distribution, but I've tried to install and configure Arch for two days now. My problem is mainly that the Dutch mirrors are completely useless! I can install the system by the use of the American or German mirrors. Does anyone else from the Netherlands  experiences these problems with these mirrors or someone else that also uses the Dutch mirrors? Because during the installations there is a connection timeout over and over again...

To be more specific it's about these mirrors:

ftp://ftp.nluug.nl
http://ftp.nluug.nl
ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl
http://ftp.surfnet.nl

Last edited by Keessince1988 (2010-01-26 22:34:40)

litemotiv

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Registered: 2008-08-01

Posts: 5,026

Re: Dutch mirrors are useless?

i use ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl which usually seems to work fairly well (i have just Syu'd 2 minutes ago). it doesn't work 100% of the time though, so i do have a foreign mirror uncommented as well for backup..

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mianka

Member

From: BE LEUVEN

Registered: 2006-05-30

Posts: 229

Re: Dutch mirrors are useless?

I use belnet.be mirrors, they seem quite popular in NL.
Never had problems with dutch mirrors so far and they are up to date (see https://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html)

dr_te_z

Member

From: Zoetermeer, the Netherlands

Registered: 2006-12-06

Posts: 154

Re: Dutch mirrors are useless?

I always use the "nluug.nl" mirror. No complaints.

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Keessince1988

Member

From: The Netherlands, Amsterdam

Registered: 2010-01-26

Posts: 6

Re: Dutch mirrors are useless?

Hmmm, okay, I guess I'll just uncomment more mirrors. Thanks for the comments!