Comments on the fastestmirror plugin

[Tim]

Raman Gupta:
>> The fact that yum-fastestmirror ignores bandwidth when selecting 
>> mirrors is annoying for high bandwidth machines too -- I regularly 
>> find that yum selects mirrors which have low latency but whose 
>> bandwidth is very poor, which requires a manual update to the exclude 
>> list.

Tony Nelson:
> Type Ctrl-C during a slow download, and then (as it warns) don't type 
> it again for at least two seconds.  You'll get the next mirror from the 
> list.  It's a yum thing, and also an artifact of how the download 
> library works.

That's still manual intervention, and only of use when using the command
line.  I second the prior proposal that a user ought to be able to
preset their computer to automatically look for another mirror if the
download speed went below a certain threshold.

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