On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Paul Dufresne <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, I have lots of errors while downloading packages with pacman, > and almost never while downloading files from Shiretoko Firefox. > > I have tried many mirrors, that's the same for each. > > Oh... I use a 56k modem (Intel 536EP Data Fax modem). > > But even while downloading in Firefox, it sometimes give me the > feeling it has stopped downloading for about 40 secs... while pacman > seems to give up after about 20 secs. > > I did not tried yet to download with wget or curl (does pacman use one > of them?). > > Is there a constant I could change in the code, and rebuild it?... I > did not download the code of pacman yet. > >
Using arch with a 56k modem is called masochism :) Seriously, I would never do that, I would just get a dvd of a linux distribution that already contains a lot of software. If that doesn't make any sense.. well, curl and wget are indeed known to behave more nicely than libfetch with crap connections.
