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[SOLVED] Pacman slow download speed (random-hero.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by pinkolik@random-hero.com to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

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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!

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[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] g7s@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago

Sure but I just assume that's not the case... :) But let's see.

[–] pinkolik@random-hero.com 1 points 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