[upbeat_general]

I have the same issue. From what I can tell it’s just network-bound and the Arxiv servers are slow. They theoretically allow for you to setup a caching server but after spending a while trying to get it setup, I haven’t been able to get it to work.

https://info.arxiv.org/help/faq/cache.html

[arccy]

maybe it'll be faster now with fastly

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38723373