I am using arch Linux with the kde-plasma desktop environment.
When installing packages using pamac (package manager) I reach download speeds of around 25 mib/s but when using a web browser such as fire fox I reach download speeds of about 2 mib/s.
Why is this happening?
Hi Fezzan - and welcome to the Forum.
Did you measure the download speed with FF using a download speed-checker? If so, the good speed checkers download many files simultaneously in order to saturate your bandwidth and get a worst case value. As I understand it, the Package Manager, in contrast, typically downloads all the required sub-files packaged into a single file (as tar does), so your bandwidth is not being saturated.
Keith
Try a different browser such as Chromium and see if the speeds differ. If so, consider ‘cleaning up’ Firefox (see here - https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/speed-mint.html) section 6 onwards. When testing, remember to use the same utility (e.g: http://www.speedtest.net/) and the same destination to maintain integrity of results.