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 In article <828710522_OASIS_@swoon.demon.co.uk>
  tone@swoon.demon.co.uk (Tony Gilbert) said:-

> In article <828557600_OASIS_@swampdog.demon.co.uk>
>  guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk (Guy Harrison) said:-
>
>>>As any one elsa still suffering from half there normal throughport 
>>since >the Newsservers have been fixed ? There's a *lot* of resent 
>>packets, do an "so" command in Nos, look for the line saying 
>>nntp_client_main (iirc) once news is connected and look at the socket 
>>number (n), now do "so n" and the information displayed is fairly self 
>>explanitory (Receive & Resent). For the first time since scalable news 
>>was fixed, it was not approaching 30-40 percent of my total newsfeed. 
>>Still not good enough though.
>
>I'll give that a try next time. Well at least it's not just me who's
>having the problems. Well I wish it was just me then at least I would be
>able to fix it :-)

I asked in another group (service or pc - I forget) and got an email 
from someone who knows about these things, apparently the TCP code in 
the newserver is supposed to intelligently guess the response time of 
the client based on previous packets, so after an initial few resends, 
it should settle down on a noise free line. It isn't, it going crazy 
sending packets it's already sent. It reminds me of the time we used a 
certain brand of flea spray on our moggy - after 5 minutes sulking in 
a corner, he suddenly went mad and jumped out of the second floor 
window. I got to it just in time to see him vanishing in the distance. 
The main ingredient of vinegar and a four letter term for making a 
journey come to mind in both cases :-))


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Guy Harrison

guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk