Hello everyone!

I’m experiencing troubles when installing and updating dependencies via pacman, download speed is waaay too low like 30-40 kb/s. I’ve tried reflector and rank-mirors, I even moved mirrors from another machine where everything works well but nothing helped.

As far as I can tell it’s not a slow internet connection problem, because when I download torrents the speed is good (up to 7 megabytes per second).

How can I troubleshoot this?

Thanks!

    • pinkolik@random-hero.comOP
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      1 year ago
      [pinkolik@acer-laptop ~]$ cat /etc/xdg/reflector/reflector.conf 
      # Reflector configuration file for the systemd service.
      #
      # Empty lines and lines beginning with "#" are ignored.  All other lines should
      # contain valid reflector command-line arguments. The lines are parsed with
      # Python's shlex modules so standard shell syntax should work. All arguments are
      # collected into a single argument list.
      #
      # See "reflector --help" for details.
      
      # Recommended Options
      
      # Set the output path where the mirrorlist will be saved (--save).
      --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
      
      # Select the transfer protocol (--protocol).
      --protocol https
      
      # Select the country (--country).
      # Consult the list of available countries with "reflector --list-countries" and
      # select the countries nearest to you or the ones that you trust. For example:
      # --country France,Germany
      
      # Use only the  most recently synchronized mirrors (--latest).
      --latest 5
      
      # Sort the mirrors by synchronization time (--sort).
      --sort age
      [pinkolik@acer-laptop ~]$ cat /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
      ################################################################################
      ################# Arch Linux mirrorlist generated by Reflector #################
      ################################################################################
      
      # With:       reflector @/etc/xdg/reflector/reflector.conf
      # When:       2023-07-22 13:21:47 UTC
      # From:       https://archlinux.org/mirrors/status/json/
      # Retrieved:  2023-07-22 13:21:47 UTC
      # Last Check: 2023-07-22 13:16:12 UTC
      
      Server = https://london.mirror.pkgbuild.com/$repo/os/$arch
      Server = https://mirror.ubrco.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
      Server = https://archlinux.mailtunnel.eu/$repo/os/$arch
      Server = https://mirror.f4st.host/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
      Server = https://mirror.tmmworkshop.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
      [pinkolik@acer-laptop ~]$ 
      
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        1 year ago

        Maybe you should uncomment the country option, and specify your country and a few close to you. Latest synchronized, doesn’t mean they are close to you.

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    1 year ago

    try doing pacman -Syy

    it works for me, I have to do it every few months 🤷

  • mrmanager@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    I doubt it’s only pacman. Try downloading something with wget for example. It should also be slow then.

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      1 year ago

      It absolutely can be only pacman, if the mirrors chosen are on the other side of the planet.

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      1 year ago
      [pinkolik@acer-laptop ~]$ speedtest-cli
      Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
      Testing from Unknown (x.x.x.x)...
      Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
      Selecting best server based on ping...
      Hosted by SDHD Hosts (x) [x km]: 87.342 ms
      Testing download speed................................................................................
      Download: 47.72 Mbit/s
      Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
      Upload: 49.01 Mbit/s
      
  • axzxc1236@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Maybe your BitTorrent software eats all the bandwidth so other networking programs shows bad performance?

    Have you tried pacman without running your BitTorrent software?