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"David G. Bell" <dbell@zhochaka.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <19970519200207213791@pwomar.demon.co.uk>
>            News@pwomar.demon.co.uk "Paul Womar" writes:
> 
> > True, the news service is (according to many people) far from settled.
> 
> I'm showing download rates (using KA9Q) of around 5200 cps, using a v.34
> modem, which is up around the levels I was getting before the recent 
> unpleasantness, although the new system still shows signs of being 
> affected by the traditional peak load times.

Me too, I had very good times at midday today, about 4500cps in general
and over 10k when getting headers.  The problems aren't to do with load
but to do with binaries being missing or dropped, it is supposedly
beyond their control but putting up the expiry times for groups that are
currently almost useless doesn't seem to be a good idea.
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