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I just spun up a new CentOS 8 VM and ran the mandatory initial update and was rather surprised to see single packages downloading at 50KBps. I think 1998 would like their acceptable transfer speeds back! 
 It turns out that a couple of changes to your dnf.conf file will get you back into the 21st century. 
 Just edit your dnf.conf file: 
 nano /etc/dnf/dnf.conf
 And make sure you…
I just spun up a new CentOS 8 VM and ran the mandatory initial update and was rather surprised to see single packages downloading at 50KBps. I think 1998 would like their acceptable transfer speeds back!
It turns out that a couple of changes to your dnf.conf file will get you back into the 21st century.
Just edit your dnf.conf file:
nano /etc/dnf/dnf.conf
And make sure you have the following two lines:
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