On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 22:00 -0800, Kam Leo wrote: > 2008/4/4 Chris <racerx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Greetings, > > > > Maybe it's me - but all evening the Fedora8 repos seem awful slow. I did > > a new install of 7 on my lappy 6:00 pm this evening, its now 11:17 pm > > and I'm still downloading the 208 or so updates. > > > > Can someone confirm? > As I write this I'm in the process of upgrading 30 packages for F8 > using the updates, adobe, and livna repositories. A time out for the > downloading of two packages occurred. After re-invoking Smart from the > commandline the downloads and updates proceeded to completion. I'm also doing an upgrade. Don't know exactly how many packages are actually part of it; pup said 15 security upgrades. So far, the machine has been at it ever since 9:21 AM, it's 11:06 PM now, which makes about 13 hours 45 minutes. A little less than 40 megabytes downloaded so far. That's about 800 bytes /second, which is **SLOW**. Any ideas what's going on? Server problems? Or maybe ATT (my ISP) has put some kind of a throttle on such downloads. Many Thanks - jon
