Speed

[0m3g@hM@n]

Hey All!

New to the forum but not new to SABnzbd. Been around since the old 0.2.5 days like 07 I think? Anyway, I have Verizon FiOS with 20+meg D\L speed. The issue I am having is that I can only get SABnzbd to D\L at 2.27 mg (Downloaded in 25 minutes 49 seconds at an average of 2.27 MB/s) and it has never been faster. Other apps (Newsbin) can pull down from Giganews (my provider) at 18 or 19 mgps. Am I doing something wrong or is this just the way it is? Any assistance is greatly welcome!

P.S. I love this app!

[shypike]

I don't know on what hardware you run it,
but on any PC less than three years old, you should be able
to get at least 10 MBytes/sec.
You should set at least an ample article cache (say 200M).

You say your line speed is 20 M, is that bits or bytes?
SABnzbd uses MBytes/second.

[0m3g@hM@n]

Thanks for the reply shypike,

It's Bytes, 20+ Megabytes. It's fiber to the house then copper to the closet and rooms. Im running it on an HP Pavilion dv7, 8 gig of RAM, Windows 7. I've left the artical limit blank thinking no limit would be faster...yes? Dont know it it matters but I have 50 connections thru Giganews and use all. But it didnt seem to matter when I had a package with 20 connections. It still ran slow. I can't figure it out , other apps run faster but dont have all the cool toys as SAB does.

[n2k]

I run with 20 SSL connections on Astraweb with a 120Mbit (= 15MByte) connection and works just fine.
Usually its average is around 14.4MByte: "Downloaded in 25 seconds at an average of 14.4 MB/s"

CPU: Core i7 920, 6GB of memory, 1TB drive 7200 rpm, Windows 7 x64
My article cash is 128MB.

[shypike]

Even on my lowly Atom-powered WHS box it gets to 5-6 MBytes/sec.

[0m3g@hM@n]

Thanks for your replies.

Was it fast like that "out of the box" or did you have to do some configuration somewhere?
I just need to rule everything out B4 I go mucking around with my router.
If I figure it out I'll plop it here in the event someone else has the same probs.

[shypike]

Out of the box.
Just pick a sensible amount of threads per server (your mileage may vary)
and an ample article cache, that's about it.

[0m3g@hM@n]

Well, it's not the router. Have a spare and used it to test and the results are the same. Also any config changes I make within SAB makes no diff at all. I'm at a loss. Shypike: when you say "threads per server" do you mean the connections?

[shypike]

when you say "threads per server" do you mean the connections?[/color]

Yes.
Have you tried an alternative Usenet downloader?
This may (or may not) rule out other problems besides the speed of SABnzbd.