Get rid of slow CentOS mirrors on update.
Edit /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf
configuration file and exclude
slow mirrors in the main section.
[main] enabled=1 verbose=0 socket_timeout=3 hostfilepath=/var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt maxhostfileage=10 maxthreads=15 # Exclude slow/overloaded mirrors exclude=mirror.slow.com, ftp.slow.mirror.com