FWIW, checkout of these things took 5+hrs, staying on the local
.freebsd.org net w/o hitting the 'net at all.
As promised,
$ time cvs ci
real 67m51.701s
user 0m1.250s
sys 0m5.345s
You can take control over your nick by connecting to muh with an IRC
client that is able to supply a password for the server connection.
http://www.riot.org/muh/
PR: ports/8109