Historically the download speeds of Chaotic-AUR (our repository) were pretty bad for a lot of people. This had a simple cause: Many people won't ever change the default order of Chaotic's mirrorlist since it is unaffected by Reflector (the Arch mirrorlist GUI), which resulted in everyone downloading from the same server. The updated mirrorlist includes the automatic geo-mirror as well as a CDN one, which both help distributing the load. If you are still experiencing speed problems or want to make sure you are downloading from the closest mirror manually selecting it is still a good idea. So lets find out how to get better speeds by using another mirror! 😊
- We are going to open the mirrorlist using micro (our default text editor) - superuser needed:
sudo micro /etc/pacman.d/chaotic-mirrorlist
- Then comment out all mirrors in front of the one you want to use - your best bet is to take one geographically closest to you. Then finish by refreshing the database using the new mirror & updating afterwards.
sudo pacman -Syu
- There is also an Asciicast which shows the process.