[tex-live] Choosing a mirror

[Philip TAYLOR]

Ken Brown wrote:

> One strategy is to run 'tlmgr update --list' until it chooses a mirror
> that you like. Then rerun 'tlmgr update ...', explicitly specifying the
> good mirror on the command line. Choosing a mirror and sticking to it
> forever is not likely to be reliable.

When you say "run", Ken, should I infer "re-run", since 'tlmgr update 
--list' seems to use just one mirror, selected at the beginning.  But
even if I re-run it, it chooses the same mirror :

> K:\Documents and Settings\Chaa006.PC87-CC>tlmgr update --list
> tlmgr: package repository ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet
 > ...
> K:\Documents and Settings\Chaa006.PC87-CC>tlmgr update --list
> tlmgr: package repository ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet
> ...

<etc>

Philip Taylor