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In article <19960920.213007.23@mike.old-inn.demon.co.uk>, Mike Lane
<URL:mailto:mike@old-inn.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> In message <n10ADE6A3@jhammell.demon.co.uk> John Hammell wrote:
> 
> > I wish you had 'ranted' a few days earlier!!! I've shelled out cash
> > as well!
> 
> Sorry, I only 'upgraded' to ANT a few days ago myself
> 
> > Is it really that bad?
> 
> Well perhaps not *all* that bad - apart from the news download the rest of
> the ANT suite seems to me very good. The web browser is much better than the
> Termite one IMHO, and I understand that FTP is good as well. Looking on the
> bright side I would think that ANT is more likely to develop their product
> faster than the competition, and sooner or later they will *have* to sort out
> the news problem. The more people shout about it the better though.

When you say 'news problem' I presume you are talking about low download
speed - I don't think there really is a problem with news, in fact for me its
a lot faster. With release I downloading 2-300 articles took 5-10 minutes.
Over the last couple of days, with release II, I've downloaded 400-500
articles in the same amount of time.

How do you come to the conclusion that release II is slower? - Don't forget
the transfer rate shown in the status window is likely to be the transfer
rate for the PPP (or whatever) link. You have got packet overheads, and
server-client communication (ie the client requesting articles etc) all
included in this transfer rate. 

The rate shown in the logging appears to be the average transfer rate for the
articles. The total amount of data being transfered will be a lot more than the
size of all the articles you end up with.

In fact you can confirm this by looking at the logging (I know the following
is too short/small for a good example, but it was the only log I could find
with the appropriate data in it):

From the news d/l
13:29 nntp xfer 36911 bytes (in 22 sec, 1622 bytes/sec)

From the modem when it hung up
13:54 < Chars sent                15684      Chars Received            78805

So the modem reckons that its transferred ~90k. Assuming this is all due to
the news transfer (not true but it'll be fairly close), this gives a total
data transfer rate of ~4Kb/s.

What type of transfer rate does the software you are comparing the ANT suite
with give ??

Anyway I'm not really bothered about the news transfer speed - I've got free
phone calls from 7pm-7am :) - what does bother me is InetSuite falling over
when you try and use the machine for anything else whilst its transfering news. 

Apart from this annoying bug, the rest of the suite is very good, and a huge
improvement over the first release (even if Marcel still doesn't beep when mail
arrives :)

cya

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