MetalheadGautham
AFK
I have been using arch linux for some time now and I find it to be one of the best distros ever. Its very simple and easy to use, and configuring is very easy since only a handful of text files need to be edited. KDEmod simply rocks.
But I have one major issue with it - its repositories are simply too slow. I am not able to download anything at all during the night time UL BSNL H500 broadband surfing from the repos, since I get sick speeds like 15kbps. But at noon and evening, I get blazing fast download speeds, which are useless since I can't use that time for downloading anything. Rankmirrors script revealed that the fastest mirror I can access is also just 16kbps in speed right now. I don't know what to do now. Can anyone help and/or advice me here ?
Is there any hack for pacman to make it download files in paralell, i.e, many files at a time ? Or can I somehow make wget, which pacman uses, to accelerate downloads ?
I really don't want to leave arch and KDEmod, but I think I am being forced to, by slow speeds. I am considering going for CentOS 5.2, whose DVD I am downloading from internode.net. What do you guys say ? What will be the speed difference between CentOS and arch ? What about the new debian testing release ?
But I have one major issue with it - its repositories are simply too slow. I am not able to download anything at all during the night time UL BSNL H500 broadband surfing from the repos, since I get sick speeds like 15kbps. But at noon and evening, I get blazing fast download speeds, which are useless since I can't use that time for downloading anything. Rankmirrors script revealed that the fastest mirror I can access is also just 16kbps in speed right now. I don't know what to do now. Can anyone help and/or advice me here ?
Is there any hack for pacman to make it download files in paralell, i.e, many files at a time ? Or can I somehow make wget, which pacman uses, to accelerate downloads ?
I really don't want to leave arch and KDEmod, but I think I am being forced to, by slow speeds. I am considering going for CentOS 5.2, whose DVD I am downloading from internode.net. What do you guys say ? What will be the speed difference between CentOS and arch ? What about the new debian testing release ?