Mirrorselect

This tool helps you find the fastest mirror for you. Very useful for fetching lots of stuff when installing or upgrading Gentoo.

The tool is located in the app-portage/mirrorselect package. It's included in the livecd's. To install it on your system:

During installation use:

to select mirror or

to select rsync-mirror

If you would like to find the fastest available servers use:

This command will download a 100K chunk from each server in the servers list and then choose 3 fastest, writing them to make.conf

If you use http-replicator use this to download only http mirrors:

Portage/Mirrorselect Mirrorselect