Hi all,
I am using Fedora 39 KDE and I get regular updates. Lately I notice that downloading these updates is pretty slow. I have a 200mbps connection but I get speeds in hundreds kbps.
I was wondering which repository servers I am using. This must be something which is setup at install, I have never changed them cause I have no idea how to do that. I found the /etc/yum.repos.d folder but can’t find out which servers I am using?
I live in The Netherlands and expect to have servers from here but how can I tell if that is so, and how can I change that should it be different? I do assume that local servers are faster because of the shorter distance but I do realize that should not always be the case.
I looked at several pages in Fedora docs, for example: Fedora Repositories :: Fedora Docs but can’t find any help here.
Thank you both for your answers.
It is not only today that it is slower than usual, this has been going on for several weeks already. I noticed it again this morning so I thought I ask about it. @mac2net I will look into this. Thanks.
Note that the speed test is given in Mbps (Megabits per second)
The download speed reported by dnf is in MB/s (Megabytes per second) There is about a factor of ten in the reported values. [4.4 MB/s is approximately 44 Mb/s] (1 byte = 8 bits and there is additional overhead with sending data via the network)
In other words, my download speed was about the same as my speed-test network connection speed. It’s possible that by the time I did the speed test, Sunday internet traffic had picked up. I was actually expecting +45 mbps download.
I installed dnf5 in a few places, but as Fedora is already ahead, I thought I would stay behind of ahead of ahead. Is there a critical reason why dnf5 hasn’t officially replaced dnf[4] yet?
Cheers M
Yes, I thought I had dnf5 already but it turned out I didn’t. I will give this a try the next days to see if it changes things.
Thanks again for the tips.
Yes it was planed to release … I guess with 39 but then there where problems and the release got postponed. But in the meantime you can use it with dnf5.
The actual set if mirrors for your location can be found at /var/cache/dnf/*/metalink.xml. These are the first files to be downloaded when doing refreshing the dnf cache.
I would have expected that the mirrors in The Netherlands (with nl in the name) would have higher preferences, but no.
Does this actually mean that the higher the preference, the higher the speed? Is this tested from my computer or is this a general list, or …?
I know Manjaro Linux has a way to determine the fastest mirrors. It ets you build a list according to speed. Does Fedora has something like this as well?
