[pacman-dev] pacman mirrors

[Aaron Griffin]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Amanai <amanai at freenet.de> wrote:
> I don't know what to do, but I know with the last pacman update with a
> seperated mirror list, my download speed went down to 40-80 k/sec. Before it
> was around 1700-2000 k/sec, using cable with 30 Mbits. I try to find the
> fastest server, but can't.
>
> Is it possible that pacman can use "geo_ip", that automatically find the
> nearest and fastest server. This works perfect with my openSUSE box.
>
> Now it looks like, after running pacman -Syu I spend a day to get all
> updates.
>
> I was set up mirror after mirror from this list
> http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html
>
> the fastest I get now are 200 k/sec. with a Server out of date. ~ 10 hours
> out of date.
>
> Where is the fast california server gone?

Have you tried running rankmirrors?