On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 05:33:15AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 03 July 2004 04:04, Florin Andrei wrote: > >On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 22:26, Don Russell wrote: > >> Florin Andrei said: > >> > The mirror i'm using is extremely fast, i do updates in no time. > >> > >> I notice you're not sharing this information.... presumably so it > >> remains fast for you. ;-) > > > >yes > > yes is all well and good for you, but the rest of us are looking at > several days worth of typing 'yum update' (FC1) only to have it hang > at the downloading headers line, and 10 minutes later give it a The whole point of mirrors is not only to distribute the load, but also to give you a mirrror close to where you live, which should theoretically be faster. If someone has a favorite mirror halfway around the world and they tell you about it, it's likely to do you absolutely no good. On the other hand, a close mirror isn't always the best. I live in southern ohio and like to use eas.muohio.edu as my mirror, as they are about 30 miles from my house, but they are frequently bogged down, so I use others hundreds of miles away. The point is, the best mirror for you is the best mirror for YOU, not somebody else. Even on FC2 with yum picking a mirror, I have problems. The only way to go is configure your own favorite mirrors by trial and error. As alway, YMMV.
