222593 - Downloading newsgroup messages still too slow

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

Description

[Mark Stier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

I have WLAN with typical throughput of about 400 kb/s. When doing an offline
sync of my subscribed newsgroups, it uses less than 30 kb/s of bandwidth most of
the time. That is far better than with release 1.4 but still very slow.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Mark Stier]

I should add that I currently do not know of any newsreader that is faster in
that aspect. So the low bandwidth may really be a protocol issue.

Comment 2

[Mark Stier]

I tried recent versions of xnews and freeagent. Both fetch newsgroup articles
one by one -- seemingly not even as fast as Mozilla does! :-)

Comment 3

[Andreas Kunz]

So this is invalid (not a bug) as per reporter's comment.
Look, I have a 100Mbit/s connection to the internet and my downloads are slower
by magnitudes. It's because the servers and routers have limits/many
connections/are congested and yes, the protocol might also be an issue. :-)

Comment 4

[Stephen Donner [:stephend]]

verified invalid.