diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml
index 97fd8144f7..e0392bdf18 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml
@@ -211,11 +211,12 @@
     <title>FTP Sites</title>
 
     <para>The official sources for FreeBSD are available via anonymous FTP
-      from:
-
-      <blockquote>
-	<para><ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/"></ulink>.</para>
-      </blockquote></para>
+      from a worldwide set of mirror sites.  The site
+      <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/"></ulink> is well
+      connected and allows a large number of connections to it, but
+      you are probably better off finding a <quote>closer</quote>
+      mirror site (especially if you decide to set up some sort of
+      mirror site).</para>
 
     <para>The <ulink
 	url="http://www.freebsdmirrors.org/">FreeBSD mirror
@@ -428,10 +429,6 @@
 	    <listitem>
 	      <para><ulink url="ftp://ftp2.cn.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/"></ulink></para>
 	    </listitem>
-
-	    <listitem>
-	      <para><ulink url="ftp://ftp3.cn.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/"></ulink></para>
-	    </listitem>
 	  </itemizedlist>
 	</listitem>
       </varlistentry>