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d15d18a

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Registered: 2014-12-12

Posts: 12

[SOLVED] Extremely slow internet speed via pacman but fast while using

Hi.

I've just reinstalled Arch in a new HDD and I'm having a big problem with my download speed while downloading packages from pacman, I have a 10 Mb/s connection yet, I'm only able to reach over 80 b/s via pacman. If I use Firefox to download something it downloads really fast, I made a speedtest and the result was a high internet speed, here's some pings:

daedra ~ $ ping -c 3 google.com
PING google.com (74.125.227.41) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from qro01s10-in-f9.1e100.net (74.125.227.41): icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=23.5 ms
64 bytes from qro01s10-in-f9.1e100.net (74.125.227.41): icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=22.6 ms
64 bytes from qro01s10-in-f9.1e100.net (74.125.227.41): icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=22.8 ms

--- google.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 22.658/23.031/23.567/0.426 ms
daedra ~ $ ping -c 3 74.125.227.41
PING 74.125.227.41 (74.125.227.41) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 74.125.227.41: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=23.7 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.227.41: icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=22.8 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.227.41: icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=23.0 ms

--- 74.125.227.41 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 22.877/23.235/23.756/0.396 ms

As you can see, it takes almost the same time, so I don't think it's a problem relating DNS.
I read that people with the same issue where able to solve it with this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IPv6#Disable_IPv6 I tried everything it says but I saw no difference and my download speed while using pacman is still slow, really slow.

Also, I'm using Linux 3.14.37-1-lts but I've already tried using the latest kernel and I'm using ethernet.

Any help is welcome

Last edited by d15d18a (2015-04-03 05:59:46)

newguy

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Registered: 2015-03-18

Posts: 36

Re: [SOLVED] Extremely slow internet speed via pacman but fast while using

Hello,

Did you sort the mirrors according to speed ?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mi … t_by_speed

Also, I would make sure that the mirrors are 100% synced by checking them at https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/ , after they get sorted by speed.

Last edited by newguy (2015-04-03 05:37:43)

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d15d18a

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Registered: 2014-12-12

Posts: 12

Re: [SOLVED] Extremely slow internet speed via pacman but fast while using

Wow, thanks for the astonishingly quick reply newguy, that actually solved my problem, I'd have never guessed the problem was with my mirrors.
Thank you very much!