On Friday 17 Apr 2009, Saifi Khan wrote: > On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Arun Khan wrote: > > On Thursday 16 Apr 2009, Mukund Deshpande wrote: > > > the thing to be observed is i got same result after the above > > > changes.The speed shown is very high yet in practice the > > > downloads through yast are too slow. > > > > IIRC, the Yast repo url are translated to the nearest server to > > your IP location; which may be slower than other servers further > > away. There has been a similar discussion on the opensuse mailing > > list. Experiment with a few opensuse repos and see which give you > > a better throughput; enter the URIs for these servers into your > > repo list. > > The openSUSE 11.1 definitive list is at > http://mirrors.opensuse.org/list/11.1.html >
Agree, but the OP still needs to experiment with the mirrors and use only those that give the best throughput. Right now his repo URIs must be something like http://download.opensuse.org/<path to repos> which, when accessed, would forward the connection to the nearest geo-ip based server (not necessarily the fastest). In this respect, I like synaptic's feature to test a bunch of mirrors and select the one with the fastest throughput. -- Arun Khan
