How can we speed up rpm downloads?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 08:08 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> I don't think either downloads in parallel, and if your internet is 
> running at its rated speed, that is likely the bottleneck do running 
> two, three or more downloads in parallel will serve only to choke
> your 
> self. And waste server resources.

apt-get does run several downloads in parallel. This makes sense when
some servers can only server data at a rate lower than the connection
bandwidth, which does happen particularly with high-traffic sites.

poc