The download eventually finished for me. It was slow, but it did finish. The install worked without a hitch, everything rebooted and now the system reports it is on Stream. All the VirtualBox guests came back up, too. Thanks! ======== Bill Gee On Monday, February 14, 2022 9:20:14 AM CST Greg Bailey wrote: > On 2/14/22 08:08, Bill Gee wrote: > > Ah, additional details. Thanks! The download is started. Running REALLY slow (like 24kb per second!) but it is running. I am not in a big hurry. > > > > > > I'm also trying to upgrade my CentOS Stream 8 system, and am getting > super slow download speeds when the initial metadata is being > retrieved... approx. 30kB/s. > > I know on older CentOS systems, you could Ctrl-C and yum would move onto > a different (hopefully faster) mirror, but now Ctrl-C just stops dnf > altogether, and if I reissue the "dnf upgrade" command, it again slows > down to a crawl. > > Is there some setting for a minimum bandwidth threshold or some other > way to diagnose some really slow mirror? > > thanks, > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >