Gradle download slow

Question

I am using Gradle to do our build and it is running really slowly. When I run it in debug I see it is waiting on:

10:08:42.092 [main] DEBUG org.gradle.logging.IvyLoggingAdaper - trying http://gwtupload.googlecode.com/svn/mavenrepo/org/apache/apache/3/apache-3.jar

10:08:42.093 [main] DEBUG org.gradle.logging.IvyLoggingAdaper - tried http://gwtupload.googlecode.com/svn/mavenrepo/org/apache/apache/3/apache-3.jar

The artifact it is looking for isn't available at this location, but instead of timing out and moving on it waits for ages. It does eventually move on but after a long wait. It does this for every artifact that is fails to find, which causes the whole build to take forever.

Can somebody give me some tips as to the cause of this issue? It seems like it could be a network issue, but why doesn't it timeout?

Thanks