From: /m 

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 16:18:51 -0400, "Geo"  wrote:

>"Randall Parker"
>
>wrote in message news:44c2a39b{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> I'm seeing much slower message fetching for messages here from Linux
>> than from Windows using the same firewall/VPN. I figure Windows is at
>> least 10 times faster.
>
>it's not my server. The worst you might see from this server is downloading
>something from binaries could get capped at 1.5M speed. And even then if you
>had two things downloading you would get 1.5 each.

With Agent on Windows, I notice that the headers come down very quickly,
but the message bodies seem to be slow.   I don't really care, because I
just do something else until the downloads finish.

 /m

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