How can we speed up rpm downloads?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 08:14 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> I _might_ do better if I use parallel downloads from more servers, but
> I 
> figure if I do that I make things worse at the server and on the
> network 
> between. Besides, I _know_ some public ftp (and rsync) server
> operators 
> object to parallel connexions from a single IP address. I don't need
> to 
> be banned for 24 hours.

AFAIK apt-get uses parallel connections on different servers.

poc