God only knows what this is costing them but eclipse.org has brought online a high-capacity mirror site on a separate 100Mbps Internet line to handle the massive download requests for 3.1. Denis writes that within minutes of enabling it, half the bandwidth was consumed, and the eclipse.org site has returned to normal.

To use the new mirror, just go to the regular download site , click on the Download Now link for Eclipse SDK 3.1, and select "[Canada] Eclipse.org 100Mbps MIRROR SITE". Or pick any mirror closer to you. This special mirror will probably go away when the initial rush is past.

As I write this, the download counter is approaching 200,000. This includes downloads of the SDK, the Platform, RCP, or anything else that would count as an Eclipse download, though stats show that the vast majority of people just download the SDK. It's incremented when you click on the "download.php?file=whatever" link. Although that's not really an accurate number (it doesn't know about retried downloads, downloads behind proxies, bittorrent feeds, people that go directly to the mirror URLs posted on slashdot, etc.) it's the best number anybody's been able to come up with.