On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Richard Heestand wrote: > I have installed nn and receive my news via NNTP. However, it takes about 5 > minutes to get my first page of news (slower than ms windows trumpet by > about 4 minutes!). Is this a function of nn. Should I be using another > newsreader? >
What kind of network connection do you have? PPP/modem through an ISP? How many groups do you subscribe too? Your newsreader must check each newsgroup for new messages, etc. so subscribing to a lot of groups will slow it down considerably. I have been using 'slrn' for some time now and really like it. It has a few settings that increase its performance over slower links, though I haven't used nn in a very long time so I can't judge if this is significant or not. I probably subscribe to 20 - 25 newsgroups and I think slrn takes a little less than a minute to load and become functional over a 28.8 kb/s link. I used to subscribe to a large number of groups (between 100 - 200) and the startup time of slrn was pretty slow. ====================================================================== Steve Witt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PairGain Technologies, Inc. (714) 730-3245 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
