Pacman mirrors timingout

Question

Hey forum,
  I am having weird issues with pacman that I haven't been able to track down. when I issue
pacman -S <some package>
sometimes it will say error: failed retrieving file '<file name>' from mirrors <mirror name> : resolving timed out after 10520.
I have ran some pings while downloading and it only spikes up to about 195 ms. I am using wireless and have not tried using the ethernet NIC.
lspci -k show the following for my wireless
[jstephens@TuxAsus ~]$ lspci -k -s 03:00.0
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev 73)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-N 7260
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
libkmod: kmod_config_parse: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf line 3: ignoring bad line starting with 'options'
Kernel modules: iwlwifi
[jstephens@TuxAsus ~]$
Side note that error is from the following which I got from the ALSA wiki page (But my sound does work so not sure why the error)
[jstephens@TuxAsus ~]$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
options snd_hda_intel index=1
options snd_mia index=0
options snd_slots=snd_hda_intel
[jstephens@TuxAsus ~]$
Laptop is a Asus Q550L. Other distributions that have been on here have not had any issues. I also doubled checked my mirrors and they were fully reliable according to the mirrorlist that I used from arch wiki.
Can someone point me in a direction? also what log should I refer too? I am used to /var/log/messages or /var/log/dmesg but I don't see either of them under var.

Answer 1

Mirrorlist
[root@TuxAsus ~]# cat /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
## American Mirrors
Server = http://mirrors.xmission.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://dfw.mirror.rackspace.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://ord.mirror.rackspace.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
[root@TuxAsus ~]#
pacman.conf
[root@TuxAsus ~]# cat /etc/pacman.conf
# /etc/pacman.conf
# See the pacman.conf(5) manpage for option and repository directives
# GENERAL OPTIONS
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir = /
#DBPath = /var/lib/pacman/
#CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile = /var/log/pacman.log
#GPGDir = /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/
HoldPkg = pacman glibc
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -C - -f %u > %o
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#CleanMethod = KeepInstalled
#UseDelta = 0.7
Architecture = auto
# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
#IgnorePkg =
#IgnoreGroup =
#NoUpgrade =
#NoExtract =
# Misc options
#UseSyslog
#Color
#TotalDownload
CheckSpace
#VerbosePkgLists
# By default, pacman accepts packages signed by keys that its local keyring
# trusts (see pacman-key and its man page), as well as unsigned packages.
SigLevel = Required DatabaseOptional
LocalFileSigLevel = Optional
#RemoteFileSigLevel = Required
# NOTE: You must run `pacman-key --init` before first using pacman; the local
# keyring can then be populated with the keys of all official Arch Linux
# packagers with `pacman-key --populate archlinux`.
# REPOSITORIES
# - can be defined here or included from another file
# - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here
# - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
# - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
# have identical names, regardless of version number
# - URLs will have $repo replaced by the name of the current repo
# - URLs will have $arch replaced by the name of the architecture
# Repository entries are of the format:
# [repo-name]
# Server = ServerName
# Include = IncludePath
# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
# uncommented to enable the repo.
# The testing repositories are disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the
# repo name header and Include lines. You can add preferred servers immediately
# after the header, and they will be used before the default mirrors.
#[testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[core]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[extra]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
#[community-testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[community]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# If you want to run 32 bit applications on your x86_64 system,
# enable the multilib repositories as required here.
#[multilib-testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
#[multilib]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
#SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs
[root@TuxAsus ~]#
I will look at the link in the meantime and see what I can get from it.