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Morfang
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Slow downloadspeed after "too many connections to server"

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Hello all,

I'm using Supernews (part of Giganews) as newsgrabber. Normally my downloadspeed fluctuates between 1.4 mb/s and 1.9 mb/s, last night I got an error saying "too many connections to server" and my downloadspeed dropped to like 150 kb/s. Supernews allowes for 20 connections, which were set as default. I tried switching to 15, even to 8, but to no avail. I tried rebooting SAB, or my pc, but that didn't work either.

I used speedtest.net to test my downloadspeed and it said my downloadspeed was 11 mb/s, which is more or less what it is supposed to be.

I disabled the "Only Get Articles for Top of Queue" option, so that can't be it.

Anyone else have any idea what could be the problem?
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Re: Slow downloadspeed after "too many connections to server"

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Additional information:

I tried using different NZB files although all were within my server's retention time, but that didn't change anything.
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Re: Slow downloadspeed after "too many connections to server"

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Is your ISP doing traffic shaping for torrents and Usenet?
On what kind of hardware do you run SABnzbd?
Did you try a restart of your modem/router?
Which timeout did you set in the server setup?

Are you mixing up bits/sec and bytes/sec, because SABnzbd uses bytes/sec?

Disabling "Only Get Articles for Top of Queue" option can only make matters worse.
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Re: Slow downloadspeed after "too many connections to server"

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shypike wrote: Is your ISP doing traffic shaping for torrents and Usenet?
On what kind of hardware do you run SABnzbd?
Did you try a restart of your modem/router?
Which timeout did you set in the server setup?

Are you mixing up bits/sec and bytes/sec, because SABnzbd uses bytes/sec?

Disabling "Only Get Articles for Top of Queue" option can only make matters worse.
Thanks for your quick reply.

As far as I know, my ISP doesn't do traffic shaping. I never encountered any problems before with it either.
I run SAB on a VAIO Laptop Intel i5 M 560 2.67 Ghz 500 GB HDD 4 GB RAM
I just reset my router, no change.
My timeout is set to 120 seconds

What do you by mixing up?

I just enabled "Only Get Articles for Top of Queue" again, now change yet.
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Re: Slow downloadspeed after "too many connections to server"

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You did try to restart SABnzbd (or the computer), I assume?
You first say your line speed is 11 mb/sec and that SABnzbd normally reaches upto 1.9 mb/sec.
With an i5 cpu, you should be able to reach your maximum linespeed.
It could be that your line speed is 11Mbits/sec and SABnzbd's speed is 1.9Mbytes/sec.

BTW: I hope you're not downloading over WiFi, because then all bets are off.
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Re: Slow downloadspeed after "too many connections to server"

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shypike wrote: You did try to restart SABnzbd (or the computer), I assume?
You first say your line speed is 11 mb/sec and that SABnzbd normally reaches upto 1.9 mb/sec.
With an i5 cpu, you should be able to reach your maximum linespeed.
It could be that your line speed is 11Mbits/sec and SABnzbd's speed is 1.9Mbytes/sec.

BTW: I hope you're not downloading over WiFi, because then all bets are off.
I'm sorry, I forgot to mention that I am indeed downloading over a wireless network. I know downloadspeeds can fluctuate over a wireless network, but I didn't think it could be this much?
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Re: Slow downloadspeed after "too many connections to server"

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Okay, I doubt it has something to do with my internet connection (WiFi or not) because the problem is still there. It could have been a temporary relapse in downloadspeed or something, but apparently that isn't the case. The rest of my dorm doesn't seem to have a problem either...
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Re: Slow downloadspeed after "too many connections to server"

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The same error message is given when encountering lots of failed articles. Failed as in they're either outside your retention or just uploaded badly/corrupted. Atleast this is my experience, this has nothing to do with sab I suppose, since I had the same issue with Newsleecher (which I used before I discovered sab).
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Re: Slow downloadspeed after "too many connections to server"

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n2k wrote: The same error message is given when encountering lots of failed articles. Failed as in they're either outside your retention or just uploaded badly/corrupted. Atleast this is my experience, this has nothing to do with sab I suppose, since I had the same issue with Newsleecher (which I used before I discovered sab).
I know, but that isn't the case with me. Before the same NZB's used to download fine, and I tried different NZB's just to be sure. Downloadspeed is still around 150 kb/s, does no one know anything that might help me?
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Re: Slow downloadspeed after "too many connections to server"

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Which SABnzbd version are you on?
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Re: Slow downloadspeed after "too many connections to server"

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shypike wrote: Which SABnzbd version are you on?
I was on 0.6.4, after the problems I upgraded to .5, hoping it might solve the problem. But it didn't.
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