On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 09:26:10 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

> On 3/19/2021 12:03 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
>> On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:31:02 -0600, Graham wrote:
>>
>>> Downloading posts from Blocknews has often been slow for a few days. Has
>>> anyone else experienced this?
>>> Sometimes, a couple of posts download quickly then the next is slow.
>>> Strange.
>>
>> How slow is slow? And you download them each on demand, or do you
>> select them first and download a bunch at once?
>>
>> You can get delays of 5 seconds in between, but that's rare. Try
>> switching your news server between usnews.blocknews.net and
>> eunews.blocknews.net. They're supposed to be synced by article
>> numbers within microseconds, but I can't guarantee that's true
>> anymore. I always use usnews.blocknews.net. Since they moved to
>> the Highwinds server backbones, I get consistent service.
>
> For a time, it was taking from milliseconds to 5+ seconds to open a
> single selection. Not consistent either. It is back to normal and
> milliseconds at most.
>
> Upload takes about 4 seconds.

In the absence of any errors, and your posts DO show up next time
you load headers, that usually indicates a traffic routing problem.
probably a pile-up in I-80 or another hurricane on I-10.

-sw