I didn't believe a server could be so slow and yet be able to retain a connection without breaking it. This is a new record, the whole 135bytes/s:
At this rate I will download the updates I need in about 4.5 days, which perfectly matches with my deadline which, by the way, expires in 4 hours. I hate these situations, having to go to one's client and like a complete loser explain that you could not complete an arranged task because "some people somewhere" fail to grasp at the importance of proper digital distribution channels. Sounds as lame as the "dog ate my homework" excuse. If you are cash constrained for decent servers and bandwidth and are a victim of your own popularity then start making other arrangements, maybe a bittorrent based distribution mechanism, hint, hint? And before you start arguing that it's a "free" software I didn't have to pay for and that I should be happy with what I get, let me point you back to the whole holy grail of open source dogma, how it's freedom and superiority will kill all other proprietary software. Guess what just opened in 12 seconds and allowed me to work immediately? If you said "Visual Studio" you were right, it has so far exhibited a nice habit of saving me from embarrassing myself in front of my clients, that makes it worth every penny I paid.
UPDATE: Eclipse, I hate you right now. I managed to install the stuff (too late for the deadline and following an "I see" from a client, $#!#^!). Do you know how I did it? I placed "127.0.0.1 download.eclipse.org" in my hosts file and replaced Eclipse's update URL's with a mirrored one (I manually chose a mirror in France). Eclipse, assuming a catastrophic failure in the download.eclipse.org, decided it should after all DO WHAT ITS TOLD and download stuff from the mirror. Hurray, the world is saved. I cannot express how low I think of Equinox P2 right now. That bunch of smart guys has spent years devising a perfect mirroring system which essentially depends on availability of ONE SINGLE HOST e.g. download.eclipse.org. They made provisions for situations when the site is DOWN, but made no provisions whatsoever for when the download speed is crawling while at the same time server refuses to drop the connection. How briliant, I wish I had virtual blog hands so I can klap my hands in joy, I I knew if you guys write software for airplanes too, let us know so we can avoid them. I just dont know why I hold myself to a higher standard in design when people obviously care nothing about doing the same even if their product is used by god know how many people. Sickening.