opensuse11 update repos slow

[scrarfussi]

i'm installing several programs using yast and ive found all my opensuse main repositries oss to be very slow i have a download speed of 64kB/s on normal browsing downloading . but when using these repos i'm only geting 205 b/s on average anyone else have this problem when trying to install apps that are from main oss repo its really irritating having to wait hours to install a mere 2mb app

[gogalthorp]

Maybe there are just busy. Try at another time.

[scrarfussi]

Its not the first time its happened the one night i had to leave it and went too sleep

[Manchunian]

I had this problem with Suse too. It's one of the things that drove me to ditch it. This rarely happened to me when I used Debian, but it's an occasional problem with Archlinux. The other day it took two hours to check the repos for updates. I also experienced it in Gentoo during my short time with this distro.

[daark.child]

I think there was a problem with the update repos yesterday because the speed was very poor for me as well. Usually they work alright, but a simple kernel upgrade took forever.

[john_ker]

I see myself as an unsystematic novice who has somehow managed to
advance from Suse 8 through the versions to Suse 10.3 and getting
nearly all of the features, I use, to work: not so with Suse
11.0. My scanner is not recognised nor is my printer. KDE4 is
"clunky". However, that may be because Suse 11.0 is now in front
of my equipment. In dealing with repositories, however, Yast2,
the package manager is something else again (I think). The window
"Starting the packet manager" is nearly as fatal as, but
immensely more frustrating, than the BSD. "Initializing the
Target System" and "Loading the configured repositories" are very
encouraging but inevitably followed by "Valid metadata not found
at specified URL" and/or often several other similar unhelpful
(for me) messages of navigational uncertainty. My problem is
almost entirely with the Open Suse repositories, OSS, non-OSS and
Update. Although I can open these URLs on a webpage, the package
manager can't. It can, however, open other repositories such as
Packman, Guru and Videolan, although sometimes very reluctantly.
After many hours of trying I have never been successful with
OSS, non-OSS and Update. These are obviously essential to
accommodate essential dependencies and the "take-it-or-leave-it"
nature of their implementation in Suse 11.0. The audio players
work very well (MP3), as does flashplayer in Firefox. However, I
cannot view any other kind of video format because, mainly, I
cannot install the xine-engine.