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I use usenetserver.com with a service that allows 20 connections. Is it normal for Newsbin Pro 6.34 to only use 1 connection when downloading headers?

The last several months have been extremely painful when trying to D/L headers from large groups. I've read some of the other posts and seems I'm not the only one with the issue. Is the only solution to move away from usenetserver.com?

Thanks

It should be using one connection per group. I agree this can still be an issue with the largest groups but at least multiple groups download in parallel.

How about hitting the update button and getting all the headers for all the groups at once? You can also set Newsbin to download headers periodically say, once an hour, so there's never much to download. Without compression, you'll never get faster header download speeds than your connection speed.

My 2 servers both do header compression, I can't imagine doing headers without it any more. I see effective header download speeds over 500 Mbps with compression.

Keep in mind if you've set your connections to the max(in your case, 20), you run a solid risk of getting errors due to a connection dropping, newsbin reconnects immediately, but the server end hasn't had time to clear out the old connect state. To be safe, I rarely set my connections to more than half available to my account, and in general as few as possible.

Just sayin'

DT