Fedora Repo Slow [about 800 bytes/second download]

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 22:00 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
> 2008/4/4 Chris <racerx at makeworld.com>:
> > Greetings,
> >
> >  Maybe it's me - but all evening the Fedora8 repos seem awful slow. I did
> >  a new install of 7 on my lappy  6:00 pm this evening, its now 11:17 pm
> >  and I'm still downloading the 208 or so updates.
> >
> >  Can someone confirm?

> As I write this I'm in the process of upgrading 30 packages for F8
> using the updates, adobe, and livna repositories. A time out for the
> downloading of two packages occurred. After re-invoking Smart from the
> commandline the downloads and updates proceeded to completion.

I'm also doing an upgrade.  Don't know exactly how many packages are
actually part of it; pup said 15 security upgrades.  So far, the machine
has been at it ever since 9:21 AM, it's 11:06 PM now, which makes about
13 hours 45 minutes.  A little less than 40 megabytes downloaded so far.
That's about 800 bytes /second, which is **SLOW**.

Any ideas what's going on?  Server problems?  Or maybe ATT (my ISP) has
put some kind of a throttle on such downloads.

Many Thanks - jon