You can try but:Is this still valid advice?
IMPORTANT: We do NOT guarantee uptime of any particular mirror. We provide SRV fallbacks for redundancy.
Unfortunately I ended up pinning a specific mirror because whatever geo magic happened behind the scenes would consistently route me to a mirror that throttled downloads to 100 KB/s.Yep, you can force pkg(8) to use a specific mirror but there's no guarantee that specific mirror will be up. If you use pkg.freebsd.org this switching will happen automagically.
This is the default on -RELEASE versions.The solution I found fixes the issue, but I don't know why. I created the file/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
with the following line:
FreeBSD: { url: "https://pkg.freebsd.org/${ABI}/quarterly" }