Hello, First of all, the fix with the proxy using Xfer command - thank you. 2nd thing is: I realized why pacman actually did not use any proxy server. I had the http_proxy and ftp_proxy exported. Pacman does not realize this two variables as valid proxy variables (case sensitive in this case, FTP_PROXY, HTTP_PROXY). Most shell programs support http_proxy and ftp_proxy as well. What i also recognized is that a proxy server without leading http:// won't suite pacman. The connection simply times out, just using blah.sublan.org as proxy, instead of http://blah.sublan.org. As above, most programs support exporting a proxy wihtout http://, i simply didn't expect this behaviour (hopefully i'm the only one who will ever do this two mistakes at once). Kind regards, Georg