Raman Gupta: >> The fact that yum-fastestmirror ignores bandwidth when selecting >> mirrors is annoying for high bandwidth machines too -- I regularly >> find that yum selects mirrors which have low latency but whose >> bandwidth is very poor, which requires a manual update to the exclude >> list. Tony Nelson: > Type Ctrl-C during a slow download, and then (as it warns) don't type > it again for at least two seconds. You'll get the next mirror from the > list. It's a yum thing, and also an artifact of how the download > library works. That's still manual intervention, and only of use when using the command line. I second the prior proposal that a user ought to be able to preset their computer to automatically look for another mirror if the download speed went below a certain threshold. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
