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#1 2004-02-17 04:35:22

rayzorblayde
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Registered: 2004-01-04
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pacman 20kbs cap?

is there a reason i can only download stuff at 20k?  this is really annoying when getting large files.  it wasn't like this before, but now nothing will go past 20k.  is this a pacman thing or a server thing?  either way, is there some way around it?

thanks.


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#2 2004-02-17 04:41:09

contrasutra
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Registered: 2003-07-26
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Re: pacman 20kbs cap?


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#3 2004-02-17 08:05:22

Blaasvis
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Re: pacman 20kbs cap?

the way around it is to chose another mirror wink


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#4 2004-02-17 13:27:58

rberry88
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From: Arlington Heights, IL USA
Registered: 2004-01-07
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Re: pacman 20kbs cap?

I'll ask around at our next LUG (Linux Users Group) and see if there is anyone that would be interested in hosting mirrors. We have a big install-fest this weekend so there should be quite a few people there that might have the means to do it.

rberry88

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#5 2004-02-17 16:53:10

rayzorblayde
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Re: pacman 20kbs cap?

Blaasvis wrote:

the way around it is to chose another mirror wink

how would i go about choosing another mirror?


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#6 2004-02-17 18:01:45

sarah31
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Registered: 2002-08-20
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Re: pacman 20kbs cap?

read the newsrelease it tells you how to use netselect to adjust your pacman.conf server list


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#7 2004-02-17 21:23:24

andy
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From: Germany
Registered: 2002-10-11
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Re: pacman 20kbs cap?

Also, doesn't anybody ever look at and edit /etc/pacman.conf ? Why wouldn't anybody reorder that list ? From day one I used a German mirror. Occaionally pacman.conf got reset and I wondered "why is this update so slow ? - oh wait, it's using the master ftp server !" and I changed it back to first using a German mirror ....

Even without that tool one should be able to reorder the list of mirrors somewhat.....

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#8 2004-02-17 21:50:21

sarah31
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Re: pacman 20kbs cap?

andy wrote:

Also, doesn't anybody ever look at and edit /etc/pacman.conf ? Why wouldn't anybody reorder that list ? From day one I used a German mirror. Occaionally pacman.conf got reset and I wondered "why is this update so slow ? - oh wait, it's using the master ftp server !" and I changed it back to first using a German mirror ....

Even without that tool one should be able to reorder the list of mirrors somewhat.....

ah when i started with arch the archlinux.org server was at the bottom and i got pathetically sloww speeds because it would go through all the farthest away servers first (ibiblio, etc). i moved archlinux.org to the top and it made a huge difference.

so like andy says look at your pacman.conf and make the logical server the top one and then the most logical order for the rest.


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