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essention

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Registered: 2009-03-28

Posts: 11

Archlinux download speeds.

Hey,

Hopefully this will have a quick solution but I am getting about half the download speed when using Arch than when I use Ubuntu. With Ubuntu my download averages about 4Mb/s but when using Arch its only 2Mb/s is there something I have missed during configuration that would create such as disparency in speeds?

Thanx.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: Archlinux download speeds.

you can use rankmirror to put automatically the fastest mirror in front:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Imp … rankmirror

2mb/s is quite a good speed. don't know why you are dissapointed. the answer for you question is that ubuntu use different mirror than archlinux.

Last edited by wonder (2009-03-28 23:54:22)

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essention

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Registered: 2009-03-28

Posts: 11

Re: Archlinux download speeds.

Im not talking Package mirrors im talking everything related to the internet.

ChoK

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From: France

Registered: 2008-10-01

Posts: 346

Re: Archlinux download speeds.

It shouldn't be Arch/Ubuntu related.
Maybe your ISPs or the website in question was having a bad day. Can you try a speed tester?

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essention

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Registered: 2009-03-28

Posts: 11

Re: Archlinux download speeds.

I tried www.speedtest.net got approx 4Mb\s for Ubuntu and 2Mb\s for Arch a couple of mintues apart. Tried the speed test again on both and got about the same results again.

Thats the only reason I thought I miteve mis-configured something.

Last edited by essention (2009-03-29 04:43:24)

SkonesMickLoud

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From: The D of C

Registered: 2008-09-20

Posts: 178

Re: Archlinux download speeds.

Do you have your hostname properly set in /etc/hosts and /etc/rc.conf?

essention

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Registered: 2009-03-28

Posts: 11

Re: Archlinux download speeds.

As far are I know for /etc/hosts I have:
127.0.0.1        localhost.localdomain    localhost essention

and for /etc/rc.conf I have hostname as:
HOSTNAME="essention"

As far as I know thats correct.