A
Adam Albright
This is mainly of interest to people that use Agent as their news
reader and download multi-part large files. I have used Agent for more
years than I can remember and till yesterday haven't upgraded for a
long time. Shame on me.
Geez... boy, did they improve it!
I heard good things about version 4.2, (tuned for Vista) so had to try
for myself, only $15 for a upgrade. They totally redid the interface
from what it was years back, but added a lot of really cool features
like support for multiple threading within a single instance.
I have broadband and I use a premium news server, so your results may
not be as super.
Under the old version of Agent I thought it was smoking if it even
just rarely ran at about 35 MB a minute, which is pretty fast file
transfer over the Usenet even with broadband since the premium news
server I'm using typically has 25,000 or more connections going.
Today I set a new speed record, a whopping 1.1 MB a second! That's
right; over a MB a second transfer speed, in part since Agent now will
do multi-threading with just one connection, so it was doing up to
nine downloads off the same news server (they allow up to 10
connections) at once without me having to run multiple instances or
set anything special up. That delivered a blistering fast 64 MB a
minute download speed meaning it took me just a tad over 3 minutes to
download a 19 minute movie weighting at about 170 MB. Not bad
performance. ;-)
Just curious... anybody getting similar performance with other news
readers/news servers?
http://www.usenetserver.com/networkstatus.html
Of course it don't hurt if the news server farm is outputing close to
20 gbps.
reader and download multi-part large files. I have used Agent for more
years than I can remember and till yesterday haven't upgraded for a
long time. Shame on me.
Geez... boy, did they improve it!
I heard good things about version 4.2, (tuned for Vista) so had to try
for myself, only $15 for a upgrade. They totally redid the interface
from what it was years back, but added a lot of really cool features
like support for multiple threading within a single instance.
I have broadband and I use a premium news server, so your results may
not be as super.
Under the old version of Agent I thought it was smoking if it even
just rarely ran at about 35 MB a minute, which is pretty fast file
transfer over the Usenet even with broadband since the premium news
server I'm using typically has 25,000 or more connections going.
Today I set a new speed record, a whopping 1.1 MB a second! That's
right; over a MB a second transfer speed, in part since Agent now will
do multi-threading with just one connection, so it was doing up to
nine downloads off the same news server (they allow up to 10
connections) at once without me having to run multiple instances or
set anything special up. That delivered a blistering fast 64 MB a
minute download speed meaning it took me just a tad over 3 minutes to
download a 19 minute movie weighting at about 170 MB. Not bad
performance. ;-)
Just curious... anybody getting similar performance with other news
readers/news servers?
http://www.usenetserver.com/networkstatus.html
Of course it don't hurt if the news server farm is outputing close to
20 gbps.