Maven dependency timeout settings - maven

Question

Maven reports timeout exception while downloading dependencies, as it's default time out is 60000, but in my case I need to increase because ( The environment where I am working has established an intermediary server that first download all the file to it's own server and my machine get those downloaded file from that intermediary server).
Now here the problem comes, if the dependency is too large simply that takes more than 60000 mili seconds then eclipse burst with the following exception
SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".
SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details.
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[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.3:unpack (unpack) on project arquillian-persistence-parent: Unable to resolve artifa
ct. Could not transfer artifact org.wildfly:wildfly-dist:zip:8.0.0.Final from/to central (http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2): No response received after 60000
[ERROR] org.wildfly:wildfly-dist:zip:8.0.0.Final
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[ERROR] from the specified remote repositories:
[ERROR] central (http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2, releases=true, snapshots=false)
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]
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[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
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[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException
No response received after 60000 , this line creates trouble.
As a Solution :
I am using settings.xml with the following settings
<settings>
<servers>
<server>
<id>central</id>
<configuration>
<timeout>120000</timeout>
</configuration>
</server>
</servers>
</settings>
while I am sure the path of the settings.xml is correct.
Unfortunately it does not work.

Answer 1

According to this Maven guide there's a new way to set up timeouts.
I changed my ~/settings.xml that now reads like that...
<server>
<id>central</id>
<configuration>
<httpConfiguration>
<all>
<connectionTimeout>120000</connectionTimeout>
<readTimeout>120000</readTimeout>
</all>
</httpConfiguration>
</configuration>
</server>
It seems to work in my case. I tried with an unexisting repository and it seems to fail far quicker than before, when I set both timeouts to 5000. Can you give it a try ?