Agree with everything else
but ...
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Originally Posted by IanUK
NNTP doesn't use any more of our precious cap though, Easynews doesn't count either headers nor the NNTP overhead in its calculations.
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Agree: Easynews doesnt count it but NTL do if you are on a capped connection. All NTL see is the amount of data not the protocol being used.
plus all else being equal NNTP is slower .. eg download 5G of data to get 4G of actual information.
I agree its not worth going silly with the amount of connections to alleviate latency. Between 4-10 is usually sufficient. Anymore and it affects other internet activities..
Also for the conspiracy theorist ...
Running a trace from Easynews to my proxy address "80.1.224.4" always results in 10% packet loss at some of the NTL routers and the advice
"The router most likely responsible for your slow downloads in owned by
ntl.com"
..but using my actual IP address for the trace doesnt. I'm not a networking guru but it looks "interesting". Certainly traffic from Easynews to NTL proxy (and hence users using HTTP port 80) appears to be suffering packetloss.
Lordy