From: ken <gebser at mousecar.com> > So I tried using wget to download RPMs from a few mirrors. I was able > to successfully one whose size is about 5.5M, but the others all stop > downloading around 1M. Then I tried ftp... same deal. This might be > the reason for the "socket error" in yum. When you say "stop downloading", what do you mean? Clean stop? Network error message? Filesystem? Maybe you could try to wget to /dev/null and see if it goes further? Or try to strace a wget to see what happens... JD