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Reflector choosing the worst possible mirrors (vlemmy.net)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I used to pick out mirrors manually and had servers very close to me, but I recently started using reflector to automate the process, but the mirrors it chooses is absolute dogshit and gives me really slow speeds.

What am I doing wrong?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Could you include what you're currently using for the various reflector command-line switches? (e.g. --age --protocol --sort ...)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Here's whats in /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 Bangladesh,India

# Use only the  most recently synchronized mirrors (--latest).
--latest 5

# Sort the mirrors by synchronization time (--sort).
--sort age

[–] trachemys 1 points 2 years ago

Change “—sort age” to “—sort rate”

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