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 In article <221_All@Sea>
  All@Sea (All@Sea) said:-

>I seem to be having problems getting messages into newsgroups ... anyway ..
>
>I recently upgraded my Modem to 28,800 but can't get better than 1200 
>cps on receiving newsgroups.

I'm lucky to get 900cps at 19,200.

>I'm using Nos 0.42 and it connects at 28,800 but is Nos restricting 
>it, or something else??

This is a tricky one. Part of the problem is Nos, and some of those in 
turn are due to file access times - which again could be down to 
fragmentation or just a slow HD. Interestingly, on those rare 
occasions I run Nos in a vt52 window under MagiC (instead of 
singletasking it where it gets all the cpu) the timings are not 
noticably different - and they should be, which lends weight to the 
argument that demon news is slow - at least for us non PC peeps 'cos 
iirc Nos does not use the same retrieval method.

>I tired 0.45 but had to go back to 0.42 as I 
>couldn't send ANY newsgroup messages with 0.45 ;-(

I can't try 0.45 - I need POP3 for my pipex account. I'll be upgrading 
as soon as Mike gets it done though. 0.46 hopefully? <G>


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Guy Harrison

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