Reflector

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What Reflector is and how to install it

Reflector is a tool which can be used to retrieve mirrors and sort them by connection speed. It can be obtained through pacman:

# pacman -S reflector

Sample usage

First backup your mirrorlist:

# mv /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrolist.backup

The following command will filter the first 5 mirrors, sort them by speed and overwrite the file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

# reflector -f 5 -r -o /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

For all available commands run

# reflector --help

Caution!

Check if the mirrorlist doesn't contain strange entries, before you sync or update with pacman.

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