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.

-sw