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Reflector choosing the worst possible mirrors (vlemmy.net)
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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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[–] eruchitanda 1 points 2 years ago

I usually do reflector -l 20 -p https,http --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Even though it'd probably be safer to omit the ,http.