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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Why the change to mirrors.twobit.net for downloading stuff.
  @ 2003-08-10 19:25 99% ` Luke-Jr
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From: Luke-Jr @ 2003-08-10 19:25 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Ralph F. De Witt, gentoo-dev

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IIRC, the new installation manual includes a step to run mirrorselect. As I 
see it, either they set towbit.net as default to encourage people to use 
mirrorselect, or perhaps you ran mirrorselect and it (foolishly?) chose 
towbit.net as the "best" mirror.

On Sunday 10 August 2003 11:59 am, Ralph F. De Witt wrote:
> Hi all:
> What is up with the change to mirrors.towbit.net for emerge downloads? I
> just did a fresh install of Gentoo and must have lost a full day doing the
> emerges. There were many times when emerge was unable to connect to
> mirrors.towbit.net, path not found/or connection timed out. Also the
> download speed was anywhere from 153 b/s to a blazing 8 k/s all of this
> with many pauses with the downloads. This is not good and agrivates the
> long compile times for a new install.

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Luke-Jr
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