Alternate emerge mirrors?

Elsipkitch9809 · Apprentice Joined: 21 Jul 2002 Posts: 186

I was wondering if its possible to enter a mirror for emerge. I've been installing emerges and updates for the last couple days, and it seems that ibiblio's download rate for me is getting below a kb/sec :-/ I know my max rate for downloading is ~40 kb/sec on my earthlink dsl connection, and mozilla and such aren't slowed down, so I'm guessing that ibiblio's servers are flooded today or something.

Anyway, any ideas on changing where emerge downloads from?

Thanks

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Usually this goes away after a while. I've not been downloading much lately, but my dnld speeds havent been any slower than normal.
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rac · Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2002 6:44 pm Post subject:

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Elsipkitch9809 · Apprentice Joined: 21 Jul 2002 Posts: 186

Okay, thanks for the note. I remember there being something in that etc file before towards specifying mirrors, but I couldn't remember what exactly, and didn't want to screw up portage

Ard Righ · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 12:13 am Post subject:

I notice Gentoo 1.4-rc1 has a new file in the portage dir called 'thirdpartymirrors'.

Anyone know how that file is referenced ?

Yarrick · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 12:09 pm Post subject:

i recently changed from ibiblio server to a norwegian one much closer to me, and i went from 40 to 950 kB/s.

notable difference!

Ard Righ · Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2002 7:09 am Post subject:

I always change my settings to the New Zealand mirror at ftp.citylink.co.nz so yeah local is a lot better than getting from the US