[tex-live] Reporting problem as requested by tlmgr
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Wed Nov 5 03:24:07 CET 2008
Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard writes:
> Norbert Preining a écrit :
> > Yes, that is the problem. You might set a default mirror, select one you
> > think that is fast and near you, then call
>
> Or better, one that you tested to be fast and reliable :-)
>
> Being near (even network-near) doesn't mean it is good. From my
> university's network (domain jussieu.fr), one of the *worst* mirror you
> can choose is distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr. None of my students was
> able to finish a net install from it.
See also:
http://www.dante.de/mirmon
However, http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr is certainly completely
unusable, though. I suppose their strength is to distribute coffee...
...not TeX Live.
It seems that the German mirrors
http://www.dante.de/mirmon/#de
are all quite fast and reliable.
Regards,
Reinhard
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