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Originally Posted by IanUK

15 connections !

I only need 3 or 4 to max out Easynews, I guess I'll scrub Newshosting off the list.

The NTL server is all but unusable here for bodies, headers are great, but bodies either time out or take about 6 seconds to start to come in and then time out...

It's the newsreader(NEWSLEECHER) thats using 15 connections to download ONE file(it splits it up unlike other newsreaders), this gives you better speed. I wouldn't change Newshosting for anything it rules at that price (£8.60odd/mnth).

So unless i'm mistaken i'm only using 1 Newshosting connection with 15 newsleecher bots/connections. If i was using Newsbin as my newsreader i'd be using 3 or 4 real Newshosting connections.

Hope i haven't confused anyone as i've sure confused myself.

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Originally Posted by dayloon

I had the same problem with newshosting which is why i changed to giganews. A common problem with NTL and newshosting apparantly

Newshosting said using port 9000 should help things. It was on their front page a few months ago.

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Originally Posted by Sherlock614

I used Usenet years ago, when i first started using a PC, then stopped.

Having seen this thread and a few others, i thought i would give it another bash. I cannot believe i spent the last 5-6 years without it... what was i thinking of

Currently downloading from NTL servers at a respectable 350-400kb/s.

Could i ask though when you peeps are talking about having more than one connection to servers what do you mean exactly, its been a long time

When you loadup your Newsreader software, Newsleecher,Newbin etc in the options it lets you set how many connections you want to use to connect to usenet(newshosting). In newsbins case if you set 4 connections in the options it will download 4 files at once which means it will utilise your connection speed far better than it would do if you only had 1 connection.

I remember when i tried 1 connection on newsbin i was getting 60k/sec but on trying 4 connections i was able to get 250k/sec which maxed out my 2Mb connection.

Also the .NZB file format makes it all worth the while. No more needing to download headers. You just load in the .nzb file into your newsreader and it gets the stuff you want.