Arch mirror recommendation for North America

raymano · 2007-04-06 16:09:58

I'm trying to find a good and fast/reliable Arch mirror(s) for North America. I've tried rankmirrors and this is what I'm getting right now:

ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/current/os/i686 : 5.93
ftp://ftp.nethat.com/pub/linux/archlinu … nt/os/i686 : unreachable
ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux … nt/os/i686 : unreachable
ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/current/os/i686 : timeout
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distrib … nt/os/i686 : 7.18

So I'm using ibiblio now but it's not very fast. I'm getting average 250~300KByte/s on my broadband. Any recommendation would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Raymano

skottish · 2007-04-06 16:18:33

No one is getting good mirrors in the US:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=31599

raymano · 2007-04-06 17:34:38

skottish wrote:

No one is getting good mirrors in the US:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=31599

What ticks me off is when I brought it up here most everyone said the mirror move has been great.

If you run into a good fast North American mirror, would you please do the North American Arch community a huge favor and post it to the forums.

Thanks again,
Raymano

rayjgu3 · 2007-04-06 20:40:28

ga.tech seems to be having issues the last several days & not just with arch
once they get theyre issues straightened out they are/were fast

crouse · 2007-04-06 21:06:34

raymano wrote:

So I'm using ibiblio now but it's not very fast. I'm getting average 250~300KByte/s on my broadband. Any recommendation would be highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Raymano

250-300 Kb's isn't good enough eh ? Gee, I feel sorry for you..... I'm on DSL and my max download speed is 156 kbs, so forgive me for having a hard time feeling sorry for you LOL.

Recommend, try a mirror OUTSIDE the USA. Downloading big files(iso's etc) I find many times mirrors outside the USA provide higher bandwidth.

raymano · 2007-04-06 22:12:52

crouse wrote:

raymano wrote:
So I'm using ibiblio now but it's not very fast. I'm getting average 250~300KByte/s on my broadband. Any recommendation would be highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Raymano
250-300 Kb's isn't good enough eh ? Gee, I feel sorry for you..... I'm on DSL and my max download speed is 156 kbs, so forgive me for having a hard time feeling sorry for you LOL.
Recommend, try a mirror OUTSIDE the USA. Downloading big files(iso's etc) I find many times mirrors outside the USA provide higher bandwidth.

We aren't asking anyone to feel sorry for us. Just asking some legit questions. What if your 156kbs went down to 10 to 25 kbs overnight. Wouldn't you be asking questions? I'm sure that some people out there in the world are still using 9600 baud modems. That doesn't mean that...

Sorry for ranting

But someone who is making relative comparisons between distros here in US would not be very impressed with a slow mirror and won't even give arch a shot.

Last edited by raymano (2007-04-07 01:39:28)

crouse · 2007-04-07 03:15:56

Well, mirror speeds have NOTHING to do with the quality of the distro. Anyone making comparisons on the basis of mirror speeds probably doesn't have a clue then anyway.

There are PLENTY of mirrors that are outside the USA that can accommodate the need for speed. It's not like ArchLinux doesn't have any other mirrors to use. I find consistently that I can download from mirrors outside the USA and get faster downloads from many other distro's as well. Slack, opensuse, and others have faster mirrors outside the USA, and the times I'm downloading during the day are their slow periods usually so I get that added bonus too.

The throttling of archlinux.org is a recent thing, and mirrors will appear to help take up the slack eventually. Give it time. ...... or donate some money and perhaps we can get another official mirror going.

tom5760 · 2007-04-07 04:32:24

Try the vt mirror, just change the ftp to http.
i.e.

Server = http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/current/os/i686

Worked wonders for me.

raymano · 2007-04-07 08:45:37

tom5760 wrote:

Try the vt mirror, just change the ftp to http.
i.e.
Server = http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/current/os/i686
Worked wonders for me.

Thank you tom5760. It worked great!

Last edited by raymano (2007-04-07 08:47:14)

kansei · 2007-04-10 13:39:05

omg yes! that vt.edu mirror I'm getting over 1MB/s sustained over an 802.11B public (at school) connection!!!

holy crap where's my ethernet cable I wanna plug in and see the speed. vt.edu must be on Internet2 as well

I'll have to SSH into my box at home and see if I can get speeds like that off the campus network (my connection at home is tested at 15Mbps down and 1.2Mbps up

Last edited by kansei (2007-04-10 13:39:49)

iBertus · 2007-04-10 15:03:46

kansei wrote:

omg yes! that vt.edu mirror I'm getting over 1MB/s sustained over an 802.11B public (at school) connection!!!
holy crap where's my ethernet cable I wanna plug in and see the speed. vt.edu must be on Internet2 as well
I'll have to SSH into my box at home and see if I can get speeds like that off the campus network (my connection at home is tested at 15Mbps down and 1.2Mbps up

I miss university internet connections

Snarkout · 2007-04-11 03:08:18

Thanks for the heads up. I'm normally quite happy with ibiblio, but today it started kicking out this error:

error: could not cwd to /pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/unstable/os/i686/: 550 /pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/unstable/os/i686/: No such file or directoryerror: could not cwd to /pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/unstable/os/i686/: 550 /pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/unstable/os/i686/: No such file or directory

for all the repos. Sure enough, "distributions" is an empty directory - not sure wtf to think about that. VT is working very well though, so thanks again.

johnr · 2007-04-12 11:34:21

I have heard so many people talk about how great the vt.edu connection is... but if your running x86_64, they do not have the repos for that arch, only i686.

Anyone in a position to correct that?

I was looking at:
http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/linux/distributions/archlinux/

JohnR

drynish · 2007-04-12 11:38:16

Thanks for the suggestion... it's perfect on my side since a long time of slow speed and failing connection

johnr · 2007-04-12 11:38:31

...and I just looked at:

ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions

and there, the entire archlinux repo is missing. ... so if we can get back on that one, please make sure it syncs the x86_64 repos also.

JohnR

KerowynM · 2007-04-12 17:58:22

It's not so much a download speed issue with me, its update speed.

I hate running pacman -Suy and not getting the packages I want, or only getting some of them because the mirror hasn't finished getting them all.

After ibiblio went belly-up I just went back to archlinux.org. I plan to stay there until all this mirror hell gets sorted out, and I know what mirror updates the fastest. I just hope its soon, 50k down is so slow nowadays

Snowman · 2007-04-12 18:59:23

johnr wrote:

I have heard so many people talk about how great the vt.edu connection is... but if your running x86_64, they do not have the repos for that arch, only i686.
Anyone in a position to correct that?
I was looking at:
http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/linux/distributions/archlinux/
JohnR

The "correct" vt.edu mirror is ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/ The one you mentionned above hasn't been updated since last year so you're better remove it from your repo list.

I also suggest to try mirrors from other continents. I'm currently using an European mirror and I get good speed.

wideeye · 2007-04-12 23:44:58

at the moment ibiblio is missing the arch directories. distro.ibiblio has been up for a couple days since they rebuilt so i doubt it will happen automatically. -hint- -hint-

Blind · 2007-04-13 01:54:56

I found to be
http://mirrors.easynews.com/linux/archlinux/
the fastest for me. It's in the WIKI.

Gullible Jones · 2007-04-13 03:23:44

Of course, it's slowed down greatly now that everyone is using it.

Why the heck do so many US mirrors have to go bananas at the same time?

gentoofu · 2007-04-13 03:59:20

Interestingly enough, while ibiblio.org is trying to get their feet back up, AMD just recently donated them two dual-core Opterons to be put to use. The new servers will be up and running in 8 days. Can't wait.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?stor … 6120457162

Last edited by gentoofu (2007-04-13 04:00:09)

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