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Guy Harrison <guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>  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'd have alook at your script if I was you, with a telnet session I
always got around 1500 cps on messages. A couple of things that helped
were upping the MRU and the other thing (doubling them both -40 etc)
this made NOS less responsive but actually faster, upping the disk cache
to around 250k also helps a lot with your history file.

> >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.

It's not considerably faster, at 28,800 I get quite high rates in bursts
but averages are normally only 3000-4000 cps so the limiting factor
appears to be the modem.

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