Am 17.12.2011 00:59, schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan: > I have a slow (1Mbps) connection at home, so I'm keen to reduce yum > update times. The fastestmirror plugin ought to be good for someone like > me, but I can't discover any rationale for how it's supposed to work. > This is not helped by the complete absence of documentation. currently this plugin is useless it seems only to select by location which is as said useless i am here in austria and it selects most of the time some .cz servers - they were really fast two years ago (12 MB/Sek.) but currently growing slowly so as long the plugin is not able to measure real speed it has no benefit - even if it woulld select closest mirrors this is not the truth - vienna is as example the closest location BUT testing with http://www.speedtest.net/ vienna is never reaching my 100 Mbit - Linz which is 150 kilometers far away is much faster
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