Throttling (limiting) download rate during "yum install"

Hey!

If you don't want YUM throttle your whole internet connection during an install/update process, use the parameter below on /etc/yum.conf:

# Limit download bandwidth (bytes/sec):
throttle=256k

If the line does not exist, create it at the end of file. You can also use one of the available suffixes (k, M or G) to express kilobytes, Megabytes or GigaBytes.

On the other hand, if you do want to use all available bandwidth, comment/remove it from the file.