yum-fastestmirror by default .. no? .. why?

[Steven Stern]

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On 02/20/2008 04:06 AM, Izhar Firdaus wrote:
| why yum-fastestmirror is not installed by default ?
|
| this might have been discussed before, but my keywords selection cant
| find it ..
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| can anybody enlighten me ?
|

I'm not convinced of the value of the plugin. I've been trying it for
several months. For example, mirror.steadfast.net is "fastest" when
updating our office. It's only a couple of hops away down AT&T's wire.
The download speeds from that mirror, however, are horrible.  I've seen
yum estimate about 5 minutes per MB.  (We connect via DS3.)  When I turn
off fastestmirror, downloads come from other mirrors at what I consider
~ normal speeds.

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~  Steve
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