Re: suck is so slow

1997-07-15 Thread George Bonser
If you are connecting to a server running INN, it is configured to throttle article flow to sucking feeds by default. You will see articles arrive in a regular pattern of say 20 articles, pause, 20 more, pause. The only way to correct it is to get the provider to recompile INN with one of its

suck is so slow

1997-07-15 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi, I am using suck (version 3.3.2-1) to download my news, but I am not satisfied with the speed this download takes place. It doesn't make use of my ISDN link with 64kbps. Most of the time the transfer rate is around 3-4kbps. Is there any way I could have misconfigured suck? Or is this a

Re: suck is so slow

1997-07-15 Thread Randy Edwards
On 15 Jul 1997, Andy Spiegl wrote: I am using suck (version 3.3.2-1) to download my news, but I am not satisfied with the speed this download takes place. FWIW, I've noticed the same slow transfers via suck over a 28.8k link. Regards, | Debian GNU/ __ o .

Re: suck is so slow

1997-07-15 Thread Paul Seelig
On 15 Jul 1997, Andy Spiegl wrote: I am using suck (version 3.3.2-1) to download my news, but I am not satisfied with the speed this download takes place. Upgrade to the latest suck-3.5.1-1 which includes some changes speeding up the transfer rate. From /usr/doc/suck/changelog.gz:

suck is so slow

1997-06-16 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi, I am using suck (version 3.3.2-1) to download my news, but I am not satisfied with the speed this download takes place. It doesn't make use of my ISDN link with 64kbps. Most of the time the transfer rate is around 3-4kbps. Is there any way I could have misconfigured suck? Or is this a