Hi!
Just started using this program on a trial basis for 9 days. Have had no problems retrieving headers or DLing attachments. Just yesterday, I noted the retrieve heder and DL bandwith to be in the 1-3KB/sec speed. Previously, in the 300-450K range. I accessed the same Newshosting.com newsserver with Agent and it is very speedy. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Very Low bandwith
Re: Very Low bandwith
Did you by any chance hit the pause button?xman wrote:Hi!
Just started using this program on a trial basis for 9 days. Have had no problems retrieving headers or DLing attachments. Just yesterday, I noted the retrieve heder and DL bandwith to be in the 1-3KB/sec speed. Previously, in the 300-450K range. I accessed the same Newshosting.com newsserver with Agent and it is very speedy. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
There is a small hand, with a green triangle on the top left, icon on the tool bar within the program. This is depressed when paused. Make sure it is off or not depressed/highlighted
apart from the pause make sure you made your check in the same time and you don't see any errors in the console pane of the task manager, since errors like "no such article" only show slow bandwidth, since it takes some time for the server to reply.
actually the picture with headers with other programs is usually the opposite on large groups, in some programs you will notice slowdown when you are trying to download huge amounts of headers.
as to articles it is not performance critical issue so unless some very bad written code you should see about the same speed a number of applications.
in short usenet explorer doesn't have bottleneck for both header and article tasks.
also if you are using some kind of antivirus which messes with the file system exclude usenet explorer "temp\rt" and "bodies" directory from antivirus scan (also "settings" directory to avoid messing with settings and "newsgroups" directory to make the program to run faster).
actually the picture with headers with other programs is usually the opposite on large groups, in some programs you will notice slowdown when you are trying to download huge amounts of headers.
as to articles it is not performance critical issue so unless some very bad written code you should see about the same speed a number of applications.
in short usenet explorer doesn't have bottleneck for both header and article tasks.
also if you are using some kind of antivirus which messes with the file system exclude usenet explorer "temp\rt" and "bodies" directory from antivirus scan (also "settings" directory to avoid messing with settings and "newsgroups" directory to make the program to run faster).