high speed internet

[Guest]

I recently got high speed internet on my PC. It works fine except in Outlook
Express. Newsgroups do not download at high speed???

 

[Guest]

You can speed it up by only downloading the headers. It's a 'syncronize'
setting. The amount of data you get when you download all messages is
probably a lot bigger than you think.
Another way to get a little better performance is to set the number of posts
'per sync' to a smaller number. Each sync after that you would get a few more
older ones in the background, as you read the first few.
There is also a lot of overhead in the sync process, much like copying a lot
of little files, rather than one big one.

 

[Jim]

I recently got high speed internet on my PC. It works fine except in
Outlook
Express. Newsgroups do not download at high speed???

My guess is that the newsgroup server is overloaded. In such a case, there
is nothing you can do other than find another one.
Jim

 

[VanguardLH]

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I recently got high speed internet on my PC. It works fine except in
Outlook
Express. Newsgroups do not download at high speed???

The speed of the pipe to the Internet will do nothing to speed up the
hosts to which you visit. If they throttle their bandwidth or it is
low, you having a bigger pipe won't increase the size of their pipe.

You are posting through Microsoft's webnews interface. However, you
ask about Outlook Express and newsgroups, so you must be connecting to
an NNTP server somewhere. And the reason for hiding which NNTP server
is why? Unless it is a major NSP, don't expect fast speed for a
freebie server. It's free using the limited resources of its host's
owner which is some end user running a consumer-grade box over a
personal Internet connection which probably has a limited upstream
bandwidth that is far smaller than his downstream bandwidth.