RE: NEWSWire/400-11.04.98

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Crosby [SMTP:jlcrosby@fwi.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 12, 1998 12:44 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: NEWSWire/400-11.04.98
> 
> "Stone, Brad V (TC)" wrote:
>  
> > I use the MC forums regularily.  I don't remember having to wait more
> than
> > 20 seconds for any message.  Maybe a T1 line helps, but even at home
> with
> > dialup it's not that bad.
>  
> "20 seconds"  Now contrast that with newsgroups.
> 
> -- 
> -Jeff
> 
> jlcrosby@fwi.com
> 
        [And Brad Said:]  That's a worst case scenario.  Average for me is
around 3 seconds.  And comparing it to newsgroups is like apples to oranges.
Actually, now that I think about it, when I download the headers for
comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc, it takes an average of 20 seconds for 150 headers.
Then, to retrieve the message text, it takes about 3 seconds as well... 

        So, on the average, they're really not that different.

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