Hey i am surprised about that because my connections to this Newsserver
is relatively fast ( about 3 to 5 k Bytes per second with ISDN ) and that
from germany. Or can it be that the server resides around europe ?

greetings Lars Wolter


Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
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> Bob Hughes wrote:
> > I get up to 28K+ sometimes at a good web site
> > apparently but these newsgroups slow me down to those 0.1K numbers too.
> > The connection rate will get to 10's of K when good.
> > OT posting here but maybe someone should start a subject about the
> > connection (u/l and d/l) speeds at p.g. so as to figure possible
> > improvements, or at least to gripe or boast about our modems ;)
>
>  I have been experiencing the same behaviour for some time now and
> have given no small amount of thought on the subject. I know that I
> am getting max connection speeds for my pitifull 33.6 modem and like
> you say when this server is working right speed is not an issue.
> Instead what I think is the problem is not the server itself but it's
> connection to the internet.
>  I suggest the reason for the stalled/slow access on this server is
> due to the system it is connected to. It is probably a high volume
> nerwork with possibly older equipment and the Pov internal server
> gets shoved aside during high volume periods. I doubt that there is
> much that Pov admin can do about it except move to a community with
> faster and more capable equipment. That would probably be cost
> prohibitive as I seem to recall hearing that this site is coming to
> us as a result of donated space and connection access.
>
> --
> Ken Tyler
>
> mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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