diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 025cfe8a18..915e677edf 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -2,14 +2,16 @@ language: node_js
 node_js:
   - '4.1'
 before_install:
+  - "npm install -g npm@3"
   - "sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 7F0CEB10"
-  - "echo 'deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/ubuntu-upstart dist 10gen' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb.list"
-  - "sudo apt-get update"
-  - "sudo apt-get install mongodb-org-server"
+  - "sudo wget http://fastdl.mongodb.org/linux/mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.0.4.tgz -O /tmp/mongodb.tgz"
+  - "sudo tar -xvf /tmp/mongodb.tgz"
+  - "sudo mkdir /tmp/data"
+  - "sudo ${PWD}/mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.0.4/bin/mongod --dbpath /tmp/data --bind_ip 127.0.0.1 &> /dev/null &"
 before_script:
   - 'npm install -g grunt-cli mocha'
   - cp config.json.example config.json
   - "until nc -z localhost 27017; do echo Waiting for MongoDB; sleep 1; done"
   - "export DISPLAY=:99"
 after_script:
-  - "./node_modules/.bin/lcov-result-merger 'coverage/**/*.info' | ./node_modules/coveralls/bin/coveralls.js"
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+  - "./node_modules/.bin/lcov-result-merger 'coverage/**/*.info' | ./node_modules/coveralls/bin/coveralls.js"