which mirror?

staticvoid · 2008-02-15 20:13:04

Hey guys

I'm curious if there is some speed test thing on the web to check the download speed on certain servers, so say,
when i install arch via FTP mirror, i would like to first check which mirror is the fastest. so can i test ftp://ftp.belnet.be or ftp://ftp.hosteurope.de somewhere on the web?

thanks

sv

edit: it would be a neat feature if the arch ftp installer could put the speed of the mirrors next to them

Last edited by staticvoid (2008-02-15 20:14:52)

tomk · 2008-02-15 20:49:58

rankmirrors - it's already installed on your system, part of the pacman package.

Majorix · 2008-02-16 00:51:39

I would also like to know this.

Problem with rankmirrors is that it only pings the mirrors, and doesn't check if there is enough bandwidth for your max connection speed. I have tried rankmirrors in the past, and I can say that the mirrors with best pings aren't necessarily the fastest ones.

staticvoid · 2008-02-16 17:48:52

tomk wrote:

rankmirrors - it's already installed on your system, part of the pacman package.

cool! i didn't know that!

figures.. archlinux is genious

sv

Last edited by staticvoid (2008-02-17 16:45:29)

staticvoid · 2008-02-17 16:56:20

so can the install put the speed by the mirrors listed by running rankmirror before listing them?

sv

shining · 2008-02-17 17:58:38

Majorix wrote:

I would also like to know this.
Problem with rankmirrors is that it only pings the mirrors, and doesn't check if there is enough bandwidth for your max connection speed. I have tried rankmirrors in the past, and I can say that the mirrors with best pings aren't necessarily the fastest ones.

Where did you get this information?

Arch Linux

#1 2008-02-15 20:13:04

which mirror?

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