How to find the fastest Arch Mirrors
Updates were going slow on my Arch Linux system, so I decided to find the fastest mirrors. Here’s how I did it.
First, I installed the rate-mirrors package:
yay -S rate-mirrors
Then, I ran the following command to find the fastest mirrors in Canada:
rate-mirrors --disable-comments-in-file --entry-country=CA --protocol=https arch --max-delay 7200 | sudo tee /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
You can replace the CA with your country code.
I actually saved this into a file for my local bin directory, so I can run it whenever I want.
But this should populate your mirrorlist with the fastest mirrors in your region.