How to Disable yum fastestmirror plugin on CentOS

The fastestmirror plugin may be useful at some points, but it can be a problem some time too as it can effect your download speed and even some time will not allow you to install the application.

To disable fastestmirror plugin follow the steps below.

• SSH server as root user 

• vi  /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf

• Search the line enabled=1 set it to enabled=0 save and exit.

*Note 0 is used to disable the plugin and 1 is used to enable the plugin.