Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Me thinks they call that yum-fastestmirror :) Me thinks that doesn't work. fastest mirror give me the lowest values for .tw sites. Which, I think mean the fastest. They are in fact, the slowest. Here are some real numbers: base 856 kb 27:38 updates 91 kb 1:20 kernel-devel died after 52:01 At this point several mirrors were tried finally a fast one was found and things went quickly and smoothly. Almost one hour and only 1.7 of 4.8 m was downloaded This is typical for me getting data from .tw sites. Mel