Usenet Explorer

Just a followup - I am now getting much faster article downloads, so I think the usenet server I use must have been unusually slow before.

Thanks, that was it.. two newsgroups. Could have sworn it was faster before, there must be server issues.

It's strange, it seems that the header tasks are limitted to 2, even though there are no other server tasks running. I disabled max.groups.

Interesting, I noticed that only two tasks were created, even though the max header tasks is set at 20. When I started a download, 6 more tasks were created for the download (max server connections is 8 ).

Is there any setting to speed up header downloads? Like download more at once? I'm getting 100KB/s on my 8gbit connection.

Thanks!

Fixed this problem by deleting the relative files in the newspro database. (eg alt.binaries.multimedia.comedy.*)

This seems very messed up. I don't have any forced retention or Initial filter, and yet I have an empty newsgroup even though its servers have many headers downloaded. eg: alt.binaries.multimedia.comedy [empty] - newsgroups.server1.com [1000] - newsgroups.server2.com [1000] What else could cause dow...