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Darkfire Fox

Member

From: California

Registered: 2009-09-01

Posts: 14

Best Mirror for Central California?

Hello.  So far in my experimentation with Arch, I've been using "archlinux.unixheads.org" as my default mirror for pacman.  It has good bandwidth, and gives me a reliable 700+ KiB per second on download.  However, the mirror seems to have a really high latency between package downloads.  Pacman typically has to wait up to 10 seconds between packages, which I think is unacceptable.  Downloading KDE4 took 90 minuntes, when it should have taken nine minutes.

Whether this is caused by the mirror, pacman, or some blunder on my part, I'd really like to know.
Insights much appreciated.

Acecero

Member

Registered: 2008-06-21

Posts: 1,373

Re: Best Mirror for Central California?

Test all of the US mirrors with rankmirrors and find the best one in your area.

ozar

Member

From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

Posts: 1,686

Re: Best Mirror for Central California?

You can also check this mirror status page to see how often various mirrors sync:

http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html

As can be seen by the listing, some of them stay pretty far behind.

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Pudge

Arch Linux f@h Team Member

Registered: 2006-01-23

Posts: 300

Re: Best Mirror for Central California?

locke.suu.edu

The ssu stands for Southern Utah University.  So it is close to you, fast, and usually up todate.  I'm in colorado and find it works the best for me.

Pudge

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ngoonee

Forum Fellow

From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,356

Re: Best Mirror for Central California?

Reflector should help if you also want to test how up-to-date they are. Its in the AUR, I believe its YAXP (yet-another-Xyne-project).

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