Slow update

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 14:45 -0600, Sam Williams wrote:
> Thanks Rahul and Rick.
> 
> Canceled and restarted, chopping out many packages but it's still slow.
> 
> I'm using up2date and Ctrl-C doesn't seem to reestablish a mirror
> connection.  
> 
> I'm slogging along at 2 kB/sec (my network reports 1.3M download speed).
> Maybe I need to change a setting somewhere so Fedora knows it isn't on a
> phone modem.  Didn't want to adjust anything until I knew I was on current
> versions--or maybe that isn't important. 
> 
> At this rate, I should be up and running by end of the week.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Sam
> 
Maybe you can try yum instead of up2date so it will allow the Ctrl-C to
switch mirrors for you.