Timeout HTTP after how many seconds
The value in this field will tell AddWeb 4 how many seconds it will wait for a connection to each engine it submits to. The default is 120 seconds, but if you get many failed submissions, you will want to increase the value. Since AddWeb 4 can do many submissions at the same time, your internet connection speed is shared between all of the open connections. Imagine you have AddWeb 4 set to do 60 simultaneous submissions (threads), and you have a 33.6K internet connection. That would mean that each submission get's 1/60th of it... or about 0.5K. At that rate, each submission is running at only 500 bytes per second maximum speed.
For the above reason, some individual submissions may take a long time to complete, and the 120 second timeout may not be sufficient if you are running many simultaneous submissions (threads).
If you find many failures, you may try increasing this value.
Maximum Simultaneous Submissions
While this was explained a bit in the timeout section, we will explain more here. Each thread AddWeb 4 uses allows it to do another simultaneous submission. So if you are submitting to 10 engines, and you set the threads to 5, AddWeb 4 will start by submitting to 5 engines at the same time. As AddWeb 4 completes the first 5, it will do the next 5. Imagine you had 5 web browsers open and wanted to go to 10 web pages. You could have the browsers get the first 5 at the same time, and as each browser completes, it takes another one of the remaining 5.
This makes AddWeb 4 very fast. However, there are limitations based on your internet connection speed and your computer configuration. Each thread takes more of your computer's resources and more of your internet bandwidth. So if you have a slow connection, a slow computer, or little memory, you will have to lower this value. If you are using more threads (and too low a timeout value from the section above) than your connection or computer can handle, you will end up with alot of failed submissions.
Following is a general guideline for this setting. It may or may not be sufficient for you, but it is a good place to start. In all examples we assume 32 megabytes of memory. If you have less memory, use a lower value:
Connection Computer Threads to Use
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28.8 Pentium 166 5 - 10
33.6 Pentium II 10 - 20
56K Pentium 166 10 - 20
56K Pentium II 20 - 30
ISDN Pentium 166 30 - 40
ISDN Pentium II 40 - 60
DSL/Cable/T1+ Pentium 166+ 60
Remember that the timeout value is very relative to the value you enter here.
Maximum Simultaneous Rankings
This is the number of search engines will run Ranking with simultaneously. When one search engine has been completed, another one will fill its place until all search engines have completed the Ranking process.
Delete Failures
If a search engine fails to accept submissions this many times in succession, it will automatically be removed from the search engine list.
Retry Failed Submissions
If a search engine fails during submission, AddWeb 4 will automatically retry it this many times before concluding a failure.
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