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I believe I have figured out the issue. It appears that Avast was holding open the connections. It had NNTP scanning checked by default, I disabled any scanning related to it in Avast, and have not seen the issue in a few days. I'm consistently getting 19-20 connections on both providers.

Also, I do not remember having this issue with Windows 7, only when I upgraded to Windows 8.

I just checked, and did a shutdown during a download, and yes, the NNTPS connections stay established even 5 minutes later when I did a netstat. I have not tried to use NNTP, and would prefer to continue using SSL for my connection to the news providers. I will however try to use NNTP and let you kn...

Hello, it appears that SAB is holding open connections to the news servers I have configured, and during the process of downloading a larger queue, the connections being used progressively get smaller, until one server has timed out and the other is only using one-two active connections. The error/t...