yum updates download *painfully* slow

[Jussi Lehtola]

On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 15:00 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> can i assume that my current download-only of yum updates for f11 is
> hideously slow only because so many others are doing the same thing?
> slow as in, like, 50kB/s for well over an hour now.

Install yum-fastestmirror by
# yum -y install yum-fastestmirror
and try again. You just may be using a sluggish mirror.
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Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org