Eclipse - Downloading content.jar.. times out while installing plugins

Question

I am using Eclipse Indigo (3.7) and facing issues while installing plugins onto it. Following are the steps I followed:

1. Add the download site
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Answer 1

After googling for couple of hours(!), I did the following:

1. Plugin installation will be faster if we disable the Contact all update sites during install to find the required software checkbox. This was causing eclipse to contact all update sites to find the plugin.
2. Disabled AVG 2012 for sometime. Seems like this was causing problems to eclipse while downloading content from internet http://forums.avg.com/us-en/avg-forums?sec=thread&act=show&id=175473

Hope this helps.