Konstantin Svist wrote: > [email protected] wrote: >> Why isn't this the default? >> > > > Probably because it doesn't work too well. > The way it works is by pinging the IPs of all mirrors to see which one > has the smallest latency. In a perfect world, that would be the source > you want to use, but in reality all it tells you is which mirror's > firewall/etc. responds to ping fastest. > What happens is the server is either lagging or becomes overloaded fast > (possibly because many users are trying to update from it) so the speed > goes down the drain. > End result: I have 3mb download on my DSL line, but using the "fastest > mirror" often gives me 50K (or even lower) download speed. Sometimes I > end up editing the timedhosts.txt file and faking a long timeout value > for the slow host.
I suppose pirut will use fastestmirror too if it is enabled? If so, it would expalin my sloooow install of MPlayer. I'll see how things turn out. I might have to edit the files. I often try to update when it's getting really late here and the mirror I'm downloading from is in the wee small hours. I then get excellent speeds. Thanks for sharing your experience! -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
