rankmirrors tests all the mirrors in a file that you give it. So you could copy /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and edit it to only contain mirrors in the US. That should give you a pretty good idea of which mirrors are best without trying to manually find a mirror that's geographically near you. On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Keith Hinton <keithint1234@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering what the best mirror would be for someone living ni Ohio? > I'm curious if there are better mirrors than what I'm currently using? > The present mirror I'm using is the esanews mirror, and I frequently get > this while performing pacman upgrades with pacman -Syu: > Could not download community.db and other such messages. > Are there better mirrors in general? > Or should I run the mirrorrank script? > Hopefully the mirror script will use a U.S mirror as I live in the U.S. > I mention Ohio because that's the state I live in presently, and am only > trying to figure out if I could find a mirror that might be closer, or > whatever. > Thanks! > Happy Arch linuxing! > > Regards, --Keith > -- "All musicians are drug addicts, no question about it. The ecstasy we get during a concert is proof enough. yet there is a slight difference between us, the musicians, and the typical 'street-junkie'... Instead of consuming powder, we consume vibrations" Will et/ou Gregory Eric Sanderson Turcot Temlett MacDonnell Forbes et/ou Touffa! :)
