The good, old times

I am running a postgres update on one of my machines:

Downloading Packages:
(1/7): postgresql90-plpython-9.0.2-2PGDG.rhel5.x86_64.rp |  50 kB
00:02
(2/7): postgresql90-plperl-9.0.2-2PGDG.rhel5.x86_64.rpm  |  51 kB
00:03
(3/7): postgresql90-libs-9.0.2-2PGDG.rhel5.x86_64.rpm    | 217 kB
00:14
(4/7): postgresql90-contrib-9.0.2-2PGDG.rhel5.x86_64.rpm | 451 kB
00:40
(5/7): postgresql90-9.0.2-2PGDG.rhel5.x86_64.rpm         | 1.4 MB
01:57
(6/7): postgresql90-devel-9.0.2-2PGDG.rhel5.x86_64.rpm   | 1.6 MB
02:48
(7/7): postgresql90-se (68%) 44% [=====       ] 7.0 kB/s | 2.2 MB
06:33 ETA

7 kilobytes per second???  That brings back the times of the good, old
9600 USR modems and floppy disks.