Question

I’ve just installed Fedora 17 and did an initial update:

yum update

yum update download speed is going way too slow. Download speed is 5 kbps.

Is there a way to tell yum to not pick such slow repositories?

Answer 1

Someone wrote a yum plugin which addresses this very issue that tells yum to use the fastest mirror available, here is how you install it:

su
enter password
yum install yum-plugin-fastestmirror 

Then I did the:

yum update

And now the yum update is utilizing the full bandwidth of my download speed.