How can we speed up rpm downloads?

[John Summerfield]

Leslie Satenstein wrote:
> My two cents worth.
> 
> I only download once to burn a dvd. Thereafter, I download the updates. I only fetch the DVD about two days after the release.  I also go to a site half way around the world, where the typical linux developer is asleep (local time 9pm, remote time, 3am), so that that mirror is not under heavy load.   I get fairly good download times.

I find my own IAP hard to beat. In that timeframe I can easily download 
locally on one connexion just as fast as my ADSL2+ connexion will go, 
and it doesn't even count to quota.

> 
> With updates I use the designated mirror list. Usually find that updates rarely take more then 10 minutes of download time. No, I do not have super high speed, only DSL speed. I am not concerned about a difference of 10 megabytes, I am concerned that the rpm is received without corruption due to transmission errors.  This is caught by rpm or yum.

08:17 [summer at mail ~]$ echo 1.5*60*10|bc
900.0
08:18 [summer at mail ~]$
900 Mbytes in ten minutes. If you have a good ADSL2+ or better, it 
shouldn't.





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