Slow update

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:45:13 -0600, Sam Williams <sam at mbz.org> wrote:
> Thanks Rahul and Rick.
> 
> Canceled and restarted, chopping out many packages but it's still slow.
> 
> I'm using up2date and Ctrl-C doesn't seem to reestablish a mirror
> connection.
> 

only yum retries on control+c. for up2date just run it again


> I'm slogging along at 2 kB/sec (my network reports 1.3M download speed).
> Maybe I need to change a setting somewhere so Fedora knows it isn't on a
> phone modem.  Didn't want to adjust anything until I knew I was on current
> versions--or maybe that isn't important.
> 
> At this rate, I should be up and running by end of the week.
> 

looks like the mirrors up2date is trying is heavily used

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Regards,
Rahul Sundaram