speed issue

[LoWd0Wn]

HI
Been a long time user of altbinz and love it but my problem - I believe is in my usenet supplier - newshosting,  but not sure. I have checked my setting in Alt binz and because it worked so flawlessly for many years I dont think it is it.
I had a 1 gig download plan and it always downloaded at about 915 mbps for the duration. about 2 months ago I started downloading 4k files and the downloads are longer and I would get to about 50% of the download  done and the speed would drop right down to zero and back up to about 40-500 and back down till it finished. Very annoying. I reached out to Newshosting and they gave me some alternate server settings which helped for a bit but its back. This issue just seemed to happen once I started with longer  files. 4K. 20 gigs to 30 gig files I try to stay with.
I also checked in with my ISP and asked if I was being throttled and they said no.
I just upgraded my plan to 1.5 Gig download which is awesome. My speed test was 1542 Mbps. But half way thru my download I get throttled sort off. It is up and then down and back up and back down. Right to 0.  Then back up again.  So not your typical throttle that was happening back in the early 2000's.
Smaller files of approx 2 gigs to 8 gigs are no issue.
I have my download set at 2500 Mbps in altbinz.
Does anyone have an idea what it could be.
Anyone have had anything like this.
Many thanks
LoWd0Wn

[Rdl]

Anything in detailed log when it slows down? Does it stalls connection and then resumes without disconnect/connect?

[LoWd0Wn]

Yes that is exactly right. It stalls and resumes without doing anything. Just the connect button is on. So strange. I forgot about the logs. Thanks I ll look

[Rdl]

When I say disconnect/connect - I mean connection will do that. You won't see it via connect button. But log will show it.

[LoWd0Wn]

I tried sending the log file but it didn't go with last post? Too Big I guess 28.6 MB.
But I don't see anything re speed.
Just article started and article finished for the most part.
Mind you I could be missing something.
I will try again and really pay attention to the time etc it does this, then I can at least copy and paste to a replay of what I saw.
 
I see  now that you only allow a small amount of KB to send as an attachment.
I will watch it now and see. But I went threw a whole file and as I mentioned I only see started article and finished article. Nothing mentioned about speed. At least what I see.
I will respond once I see more closely times etc. and I can send in that part of the log file.

[LoWd0Wn]

I just watched more closely and the download starts off fine and gets up to a500 mbps but after a minute or two the decoding gets behind it seems and that when the speed slows down as the files that have been downloaded need decoding and that slows the process.
Is there a fix for that?

I added just a bit of the log file at the end. I hope that might show you something. I wanted it small enough I could send.

I don't recall decoding in the past causing speed to fluctuate. It went right down to 0 Mbps while decoding.
Thanks again for your help.

[LoWd0Wn]

Sorry another reply but I thought I would try Newshostings downloader and see if any issues. Well it doesn't download nearly as fast as yours . Like I topped at 251 Mbits. And I have a 1500 line and yours does that. Actually I hit 1541 with yours. But it downloaded with no fluctuation.
Anyway there was a note  or message with the downloader and it said

If after downloading articles the Newshosting newsreader client appears to hang (showing no progress) while processing and decoding the articles downloaded, Windows Defender may be blocking writes to the Newshosting downloads folder. In this situation, the downloads folder configured in the Newshosting newsreader client should be excluded from Windows Defender protection. The steps on Windows 10 and 11 are similar, but with slight differences:

I run Malwarebytes Premium so it sort of overrides Defender but I have added to exclusions my Folder Alt Binz.
But I just added it to Defender too.

Will see.

[LoWd0Wn]

So it is not Malwarebytes or Defender as I did a download and it was happening and I paused it and turned off both and resumed the download and same thing happened. I thought it was in the decoding of each file but it is not. It happens on both - the download and the decoding. It just pauses both for about 5- 8 sec and the speed goes to zero then resumes and goes up to about 600 Mbps and then back to zero in about 10 seconds and over and over till its done.

So strange.

[Rdl]

It looks like very slow HDD (very unlikely) or something not being turned off and still scaning (you can verify this by monitoring task manager for cpu usage/hdd activity)

[LoWd0Wn]

Thanks Rdl
I was thinking yesterday the same, that it is my pc after all.
I'll let you know what I find out.
Cheers

[LoWd0Wn]

Hi Rdl
Well interesting morning. I called my computer tech and he got online with me and watched as I went thru what was happening in my download speed.
Just to go over. My downloads have been fine and speeds as well until I got to larger files - over 10 gig files I would say.
Anyway started off and watched as my speeds went from 1500 mbits to 100 and right to 0 and crashed the pc. Everything was not responding for a bit.
So he looked at the settings and thought maybe the temp file being on my C drive might be an issue. My download folder is my F drive. I also have a D drive
Anyway we moved the temp folder to my F drive ( same as my download folder)  but that caused pretty much the same issue.
Then we changed it to my D drive 9 drive just for data) and everything got way better. It never went below 300 Mbits. Then we moved the temp folder back to my C drive just to see. And it happened again. Speed went right  to 0 and crashed so I moved the temp back to the D drive.
And all thru this my task manager showed absolutely no issue for cause he said. CPU, Disks, memory and network all ran like normal. Nothing revealing. He said it looks totally normal. Even when the speed went to 0 and crashed- Not responding . So it is not my pc.
He couldn't figure out why moving the temp file helped it not to crash. It did not like when we moved the temp file to the same drive as my download too. So I have left it on my D drive. He said to reach out to you with our findings.
When I used the Newshostings downloader it was very consistent but speeds in the 350-400mbits range. I have a 1.5Gig download plan.
This has only been happening for about  a month or two. I had downloaded a few large files 10-20 gigs prior with no issue then. But doing it  more now. I was running 48.2.2. I saw there was a new version and installed a few days ago but not much change.
At least it is not crashing now.
If you can think of anything else let me know.
Again thanks for your help. I hope you can think of something else.
Cheers

[Rdl]

Maybe we could arrange teamviewer session, so I could take a look? PM me with times

[LoWd0Wn]

Well finally got it figured out what was going on with my speed dropping after awhile.
Thanks to Rdl for  coming in and viewing my system online and seeing that it was my SSD drive after all. I had on older drive , not that fast and I had updated my plan with my ISP to a 1.5 gig plan so to take advantage of it I needed the faster drive to work.  So I updated to the newer M.2 SSD drives.
Also he tweaked my settings in alt binz. In connection we changed the connections to threads to 20. That showed improvement immediately.  Also in download we changed the cache to 600 for max memory cache size. I think it was 0 before. That also improved the download and unpacking.
Finally with the new drive  I put the download folder to that and unpacked to my old SSD that I used for my downloads before. So the new drive only downloads , everything else goes to the older drive for storage . Works perfectly. Unraring to the old drive I've notice my pc works not as hard anymore.
All great moves to improve my Alt binz.
Thanks again to Rdl as I could not have done it without him.
Great product folks and he really stands by it.