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In article <siegman-E4BA74.10091903082008@news.stanford.edu>,
 AES <siegman@stanford.edu> wrote:

> I just started up NT-NewsWatcher on my Airport+DSL-connected MacBook a 
> few moments ago, noticed that the "?"'s in front of the 26 groups in my 
> Subscribed Groups window were only very slowly turning into numbers of 
> new messages, but also observed that the activity light on my DSL modem 
> was flashing like mad. 
> 
> So, I started up Activity Monitor (which I don't normally keep running), 
> and selected the Network Tab.  The  text at the bottom of AM's window is 
> showing "Data Received: 93 MB" and climbing steadily; the green line in 
> the little window to the right of that is pegged at the top of the 
> window and the text says "Data received/sec" is about 40 kB (which might 
> be about right for our very marginal DSL connection).
> 
> So, how can I tell _where_ this data is going on my HD, or who's sending 
> it to me?
> 
> And, I started up Activity Monitor cold, and the 93+ MB can't possibly 
> have come in since I started it.  From what starting point does Activity 
> Monitor measure Data Received? -- and does it somehow keep track even 
> when it's not Open?
> 
> [In the time it took to compose this msg, the Data Received has climbed 
> to 120 MB . .. ]

Try running tcpdump with ASCII output:
  tcpdump -n -s0 -Xx


It could be a broken news server.  For example, this Highwinds dump I'm 
on now doesn't support XOVER.  Instead of returning an error, it stalls 
for a bit then replies that nothing is found.  Doing that for 1000 
articles results in a lot of time and bandwidth wasted on nothing.  The 
server also tends to reply in very small packets that aren't efficient.

Distributed news servers used for large ISPs can have high latency 
because they're passing along some of your requests to other news 
servers.

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