🚀 go-pugleaf

Previously, Richard Ashton wrote:

>In article <285421586wnr@ttelmah.demon.co.uk>
>           Roger@ttelmah.demon.co.uk "Roger J.Hamlett" writes:
>
>} Just an obvious thought, is NT talking to the modem at 57600bps?. This
>} would saturate at allmost exactly your current speed. NT can go faster,
>} I have seen over 7.5k quite regularily, but recently, in an attempt to
>} reduce the 'bottleneck' in news, the modem feed has been 'bandwidth
>} limited' from the news server, though why such a limit should affect
>} your transfer I don't know.
>
>It has ?
>
>Shit missed another "announcement" could you provide a pointer please.

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From: malcolm@muir-et2.staff.demon.net (Malcolm Muir)
Newsgroups: demon.announce,cityscp.announce
Subject: News Service - Current Situation
Date: 24 Jan 97 12:12:08 GMT

[snip]

   The customer facing servers have been deliberately set to slightly
   reduce their performance.
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The above situation was never announced as undone, although I assumed
it was. However, ever since 24 Jan 1997, throughput from news into
Agent has been around 1500 cps (and slightly less on COLT). [Using
slurp and the throughput moves back to 4500+ cps.]

Mark