What I recall is that they intentionally turned the header download
speed down a few years ago as part of one of the "reorganizations" of
the newsgroup articles. I think they posted something about making the
change to prevent people from hogging the available bandwidth, but it's
been a while.
I think they may well have a bandwidth issue -- it's not unusual when
reading posts with Thunderbird for the system to pause 10 to 20 seconds
on some of the posts. Most posts come up immediately, but a significant
number hang.
Martin
Jeff Mishler wrote:
> I don't think it's the servers or the bandwidth that is at fault here. I
> think it lies in the software they are using to make these groups accessible
> from both nntp & http.
>
> Yes, I got a new PC last week and let it spent a good porton of last weekend
> downloading the headers. Although, this time it only timed out 2 or 3 times.
> The last time I did it, it timed out every 15k-20k headers.
>
> Guess this is the one good thing about getting new PC's evry 3-4 years 😞
>
>
> "Martin Shoemaker" wrote in message
> news:5729206@discussion.autodesk.com...
> I wish it was easier to do that. Autodesk has things throttled to the
> point that I seldom can download all headers in a newsgroup to a new
> computer or after they "reorganize" a group -- it takes approximately
> forever (up to 20 minutes for the larger groups), and the header
> download generally times out (I have a 12M cable connection for
> internet). I don't understand the logic behind their decision. Surely
> Autodesk can afford decent servers and enough bandwidth.
>
> Martin
>
> Jason Piercey wrote:
>> The original post was from February of 2006. You'll
>> have to download all the headers from that time period
>> before you will see the original message.
>>
>>