Is there any way to increase speeds in newsleecher for getting headers?

It seems that I can download at my max in newsleecher which is about 650KB/s....but when I try to get headers for groups....I only go sometimes at 60 to 90 KB/s....is there any way to set newsleecher to increase the speed for getting headers quicker? I use Newsleecher 3.9 beta 1.

I have the same issue but it's an up and down thing for me, but for the most part it's up. On good days I pull about 600kbps and on crappy days about 100kbps on a 10mbps connection. Though somethings it depends on which group your grabbing the headers from.

What usenet provider are you using?

I use Giganews....and I have the same problem you have....some days it does great and some days like today, it does awful. I am wondering if the time of day and more users being on the network has anything to do with it?

For example, late at night I can FLY and get headers real fast.....it is in the daytime that I don't get them so fast. And some days are slower than others.

I was just wondering if there was anything on my end I could try with my newsreader client that would help.

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Originally Posted by webe123

I use Giganews....and I have the same problem you have....some days it does great and some days like today, it does awful. I am wondering if the time of day and more users being on the network has anything to do with it?

For example, late at night I can FLY and get headers real fast.....it is in the daytime that I don't get them so fast. And some days are slower than others.

I was just wondering if there was anything on my end I could try with my newsreader client that would help.

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I have Giganews and I haven't noticed any ups and downs. I use Newsbin Pro.
Only thing is that it takes about 5-10 seconds before Newsbin reaches the "top speed".
This is on 8 Mbps

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Originally Posted by MultiForce

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Originally Posted by webe123

I use Giganews....and I have the same problem you have....some days it does great and some days like today, it does awful. I am wondering if the time of day and more users being on the network has anything to do with it?

For example, late at night I can FLY and get headers real fast.....it is in the daytime that I don't get them so fast. And some days are slower than others.

I was just wondering if there was anything on my end I could try with my newsreader client that would help.

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I have Giganews and I haven't noticed any ups and downs. I use Newsbin Pro.
Only thing is that it takes about 5-10 seconds before Newsbin reaches the "top speed".
This is on 8 Mbps

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Well that may be you, but just because you don't, does not mean that others have not. I use newsleecher
3.9 beta 1 ,but it has happened on other news readers as well.

Only one server is used to download an entire group's headers. I think this is where the problem lies. If the servers were shared (like downloading binaries) then it would max every time. I bet if you set max number of servers in newsleecher to 1 it would do the same thing if you started downloading binaries. Depends on how saturated that particular server is.

I'll give it a shot here in a few minutes.

Result: Just what I thought. I max out at 600KB/s if using just the one connection. I can max out at 1000KB/s and over 2000KB/s with Comcast powerboost when all 10 connections are used.

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Originally Posted by delimare

Only one server is used to download an entire group's headers. I think this is where the problem lies. If the servers were shared (like downloading binaries) then it would max every time. I bet if you set max number of servers in newsleecher to 1 it would do the same thing if you started downloading binaries. Depends on how saturated that particular server is.

I'll give it a shot here in a few minutes.

Result: Just what I thought. I max out at 600KB/s if using just the one connection. I can max out at 1000KB/s and over 2000KB/s with Comcast powerboost when all 10 connections are used.

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So I guess there is really nothing that a user can do on his end? I kind of suspected that could be the way it was, but I was hoping it was different.

I guess it is just up to the server you are using at a particular time and how saturated it is?

Well I guess patience is a virtue when it comes to getting headers on some days. Thanks for the explanation.

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Originally Posted by webe123

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Originally Posted by delimare

Only one server is used to download an entire group's headers. I think this is where the problem lies. If the servers were shared (like downloading binaries) then it would max every time. I bet if you set max number of servers in newsleecher to 1 it would do the same thing if you started downloading binaries. Depends on how saturated that particular server is.

I'll give it a shot here in a few minutes.

Result: Just what I thought. I max out at 600KB/s if using just the one connection. I can max out at 1000KB/s and over 2000KB/s with Comcast powerboost when all 10 connections are used.

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So I guess there is really nothing that a user can do on his end? I kind of suspected that could be the way it was, but I was hoping it was different.

I guess it is just up to the server you are using at a particular time and how saturated it is?

Well I guess patience is a virtue when it comes to getting headers on some days. Thanks for the explanation.

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Don't take my word for it, this is just my theory and it may just be related to NewsLeecher. I haven't used any other client so if someone knows another answer please give it.

BNR2, an old and buggy free client, has been able to open multiple connections to a news server to download headers in a single group, since August 2004. Newsleecher programmers noticed this skill of BNR2 and added the feature to their to-do list. It is still there.

I had this problem with newsdemon, usually I would get around 60-90KB/s on headers but sometimes it would max out my connection. Im with GigaNews now and so far no problems, constantly maxed out :D