Alex Howells wrote:
Long-term I consider "Mirror is a little slow for big transfers" better than "Mirror only works for 10 days of each month, then returns errors."
We try really hard to improve the user experience and the whole point of having a well spread out mirror network is quite an important part of that.
I am not sure if you actually use CentOS or not, but if you check the mirrorlist's handed out, there is never a situation where a mirror returns an error that yum wont fail over to another mirror for.
If you really are running out of the b/w, and you want to drop back I would recommend you go back to only doing CentOS-3 + 4 and drop CentOS-5 completely.