Yum updates in Fedora 17 are very slow

Question

I just installed Fedora 17 and did the initial update:

yum update 

Yum update download speed is too slow. Download speed 5 kbps .

Is there any way to tell yum not to choose such slow repositories?

Answer 1

Someone wrote a yum plugin that addresses this very problem, which tells yum to use the fastest mirror, here's how you install it:

 su enter password yum install yum-plugin-fastestmirror 

Then I did:

 yum update 

And now the yum update uses the full bandwidth of my download speed.