How to change value of 'Read timeout' of Eclipse's Update Manager?

Question

How to change value of \'Read timeout\' of Eclipse\'s Update Manager?

I have slow internet connection and I cannot install any plugin, because Eclipse\'s Update manager

Answer 1

I believe that you were getting these timeout problems during the rollout of 3.5.1. Eclipse.org had several server and mirroring issues during this time, and this caused manhy people to experience timeouts when trying to update.

In the future, when you see problems like this, you can try installing from a specific mirror. I find that installing from here tends to work well even when Eclipse.org is not:

http://eclipse.unixheads.org/