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In an article that I wrote concerning Oasis 2, I said :-
 
 >If there is a way of downloading faster (and I don't mean getting
 >just the headers, choosing which items, and then downloading - i.e.
 >two phone calls) in any way, I would be interested to hear about it.
 >
 >Consequently (and, I'm afraid, as I thought I would), I have gone
 >back to using AtariNOS. It may not be elegant with its simple TOS
 >interface - but it's faster. And I get FTP and Telnet that work
 >fully and properly, as well as Gopher and WWW and on-line mail
 >writing and sending (albeit courtesy of a quick telnet session to
 >Birmingham University!)
 
Daron Brewood (dbrewood@nest.demon.co.uk) replied with the following
constructive comment :-

 > Blah, blah, blah.

As someone who uses a phone to connect with the internet, I am very
aware that phone bills can mount up very quickly. Therefore, as I'm
sure you will appreciate, there is always a need for speed. 

But when NOS gives me a download speed of over 2000cps, and Oasis 2 about
600cps (I've had it as low as 300 and a 'high' as 800cps) for the same
set of newsgroups at the same time of day (admittedly one has to be used
after the other!), I know which software I prefer to use.

My request was for any suggestions that could help speed up Oasis 2.

(The comments about Oasis 2's Telnet and FTP, perhaps do seem harsh, but
at least with Nos, I think  it's a lot clearer in showing what's going on -
through the use of 'session' and 'socket' comands. There again, I don't mind
a _proper_ command line interface.) 

Regards,
Andrew

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