freebsd-update painfully slow - slower than source code build of world and kernel

[Henrik Schewe]

Hello!
> Usually an update with FreeBSD-update is quite quick, but today and 
> yesterday it has just been to slow to use, after two days of trying - 
> I've still not completed a single upgrade.
> This also goes for portsnap. Portsnap is also an excellent tool, but 
> the experience from using it could be much better. The european 
> portsnap mirror is actually slower, than the one in the US.
I can only verify your experiences with both freebsd-update and the 
speed of the portsnap mirrors lately.

-BR, Henrik Schewe