yum repositories slow?

[Swamper]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 10:16:47PM +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am So, den 07.03.2004 schrieb Swamper um 21:59:
> > On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 09:26:04PM +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > > Am So, den 07.03.2004 schrieb Swamper um 20:12:
> > > 
> > > > It took almost 24hrs to do the initial update on my laptop
> > > 
> > > And you really make use of mirror server(s) as source?
> > 
> > I was afraid to make any changes... just typed yum -y update and
> > headed to the beach.
> 
> Well, then no wonder ... The fact was discussed so many time now. See
> 
> http://fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror/
> 
> I some time ago tried to explain what to do and even why.

Thank you; your site is just what I need at this point.  I just
installed test 1 this weekend and have only been reading this
list since yesterday.  Getting any distribution to work on my
desktop hasn't been a problem but my laptop has always been
quite finicky.  Fedora is the first one that looks like it might
actually work.  It's a Sony VAIO GRX560, btw.