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- Path: mail2news.demon.co.uk!stokes.demon.co.uk
- From: Philip Stokes <phil@stokes.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: demon.ip.support.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Scaleable News - My Arse!
- Followup-To: demon.ip.support.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 15:09:54 GMT
- Organization: Private Node
- Message-ID: <9602281509.AA009pv@stokes.demon.co.uk>
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- Neil Bothwick (neil@bothwick.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- >
- > Ok, yesterday I linked up, waited for my mail to finish downloading
- > and then started GetTCP. After the news had finished I downloaded a
- > couple of files from ftp.demon with AmiFTP. GetTCP gave 516 cps, ftp
- > over 1400. Netstat said:
- >
- > 1061 packets (449591 bytes) received in-sequence
- > 141 completely duplicate packets (64960 bytes)
- >
- > However, in the evening I got 500-800 cps from ncftp connected to
- > doc.ic.ac.uk with netstat saying
- >
- > 719 packets (270465 bytes) received in-sequence
- > 643 completely duplicate packets (314223 bytes)
- >
- > I then did link down, stopnet, startnet, link up to get news. I got
- >
- > 360 packets (124908 bytes) received in-sequence
- > 7 completely duplicate packets (2472 bytes)
- >
- > and 1231 cps :-/ This morning I was back to 432 cps for news. Last
- > night really threw me as every other time I've had fast ftp and slow
- > news, although I don't usually use ncftp.
-
- It does sound like you may just be hitting news2 more than average then.
- I read elsewhere a couple of days ago that ic.ac.uk are now running the
- same OS as news2 on one of their servers, which is exhibiting the same
- symptoms (i.e. chucking out duplicate packets).
-
- A few other people seem to be complaining of similar speeds being the norm
- with news rather than the exception (Tanita for one), so maybe it's not
- just you.
-
- If that's the case there's not much you can do about it :(
-
- Phil
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- Philip Stokes phil@stokes.demon.co.uk
- Hertfordshire
- England
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