title: Composer is very slow while downloading Laravel
body: <p>can you help me please? I want to install Laravel via <code>composer create-project laravel/laravel</code> in to the <code>cms</code> directory but Composer downloads it very very slow. Can you help me with it how to boost it?</p>
  
  <p>Here is my terminal:</p>
  
  <pre><code>saidalo@Saidalo-Yodgoroff:/var/www/html$ composer create-project laravel/laravel cms "5.1.*"
  Installing laravel/laravel (v5.1.33)
    - Installing laravel/laravel (v5.1.33)
      Downloading: 100%         
  
  Created project in cms
  &gt; php -r "copy('.env.example', '.env');"
  Loading composer repositories with package information
  Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
    - Installing vlucas/phpdotenv (v1.1.1)
      Downloading: 100%         
  
    - Installing symfony/var-dumper (v2.7.11)
      Downloading: 100%         
  
    - Installing symfony/translation (v2.7.11)
      Downloading: Connecting...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I don't know what to do!</p>