yum repositories slow?

[Swamper]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 10:02:18AM -0500, Mark McGlone wrote:
> 
> Is anyone finding that downloading headers from the yum repositories
> is especially slow? I've tried a number of different ones and they're
> all REALLY slow (anywhere 5 seconds to several minutes to download
> just a >100 k header). These are repositories that are close to my
> area (So Cal). This has been going on now for several weeks.

It took almost 24hrs to do the initial update on my laptop
(Vaio) after installing Fedora in just the basic mode without
any server packages or anything and it only took around 2hrs to
download all four CDs.