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Speed
Posted: April 27th, 2011, 3:47 pm
by 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!
Re: Speed
Posted: April 27th, 2011, 4:29 pm
by 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.
Re: Speed
Posted: April 27th, 2011, 4:52 pm
by 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.
Re: Speed
Posted: April 28th, 2011, 3:29 am
by 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.
Re: Speed
Posted: April 28th, 2011, 4:13 am
by shypike
Even on my lowly Atom-powered WHS box it gets to 5-6 MBytes/sec.
Re: Speed
Posted: April 29th, 2011, 12:07 pm
by 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.
Re: Speed
Posted: April 29th, 2011, 12:23 pm
by 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.
Re: Speed
Posted: April 30th, 2011, 10:40 pm
by 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?
Re: Speed
Posted: May 1st, 2011, 3:51 am
by shypike
0m3g@hM@n wrote:
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.