Pacman: Connection timed out errors when updating packages

[MrSmartepants]

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I had this exact problem and this is how I solved it.

How I fixed pacman & yay not updating while on vacation

So, I’m visiting at my mom’s house for a couple weeks, and she’s got some crappy AT&T wifi. After a few days of updates failing, I decided to do some investigation. Updating the repositories through reflector and eos-rankmirrors didn’t solve the problem. I used the commands from this post: Can't update through pacman or yay - #7 by MichelN Running yay or pacman -Syyu would just display a load of errors and time-outs. The internet connection has really laggy latency and it didn’t matter if t…