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Cannot seem to download faster then 50kbps for anything...
* Updating via pacman (a local mirror, and I've tried a few others)
* Downloading of ausgamers
This problem is not happening on my laptop which also run Arch.
I use wget to download stuff. Could that be a problem?
Thanks.
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Hi fumbles,
wget has an option to limit download speed (--limit-rate).
Check wget configuration file:
/etc/wgetrc
or if exists:
.wgetrc
in your home directory.
Check also in /etc/pacman.conf the line
XferCommand=...
Otherwise you can use curl instead of wget and see if the problem persists
Last edited by luca (2007-11-06 16:49:52)
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Thanks for the help.
Didn't see anything in wgetrc, and XferCommand is commented out.
I tried downloading within Firefox and another browser (also tried curl), same problem ... cap of 50kpbs.
Thanks.
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Thanks for the help.
Didn't see anything in wgetrc, and XferCommand is commented out.
I tried downloading within Firefox and another browser (also tried curl), same problem ... cap of 50kpbs.
Thanks.
Are you on a low link-quality wireless connection? If 811.2 decides to drop down to 1mbit/s that sounds like a reasonable throughput.
I recognize that while theory and practice are, in theory, the same, they are, in practice, different. -Mark Mitchell
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Using Ethernet cables. I can download more then that buy downloading a few things, just indivdually cannot get above 50kbps. Although the total is limited to 120kbps, instead of the normal 160kbps.
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Only thing that rings a bell is that the archlinux.org mirror is supposedly capped at 50Kb/s. Are you using the archlinux.org mirror? If so try a different one.
EDIT: I think I misunderstood your problem. If the problem is not only with pacman, then this does not apply.
Last edited by Misfit138 (2007-11-08 00:49:08)
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Ok I'm going to bump this because it is still a problem. Basically and access to the internet is dodgy. Although I am also having problems (network related but not similar) with Windows Vista. Maybe a hardware issue?
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Well I found the solution!!!
Went out and bought a cheap second hand NIC, and problem solved! Was a hardware issue!
Now my question is: If I go to an older kernel would I be able to use the other NICs? More importantly how can I get an old Arch kernel? I've still got the CD of the 0.7x, but that kernel is outdated(?). Would I really be missing much? Would other things not work properly?
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boot into fallback kernel and then run "mkinitcpio -p kernel26"
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