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IIRC, the new installation manual includes a step to run mirrorselect. As I |
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see it, either they set towbit.net as default to encourage people to use |
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mirrorselect, or perhaps you ran mirrorselect and it (foolishly?) chose |
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towbit.net as the "best" mirror. |
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On Sunday 10 August 2003 11:59 am, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: |
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> Hi all: |
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> What is up with the change to mirrors.towbit.net for emerge downloads? I |
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> just did a fresh install of Gentoo and must have lost a full day doing the |
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> emerges. There were many times when emerge was unable to connect to |
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> mirrors.towbit.net, path not found/or connection timed out. Also the |
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> download speed was anywhere from 153 b/s to a blazing 8 k/s all of this |
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> with many pauses with the downloads. This is not good and agrivates the |
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> long compile times for a new install. |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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http://www.gentoo.org/ |
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