Testing, again

I'm sending this from my old computer, using Agent newsreader, while
watching my new computer's screen. I just opened Agent on the new
computer and clicked for a Send/Receive. The process seems to have
moved along well unilt the actual download began. I now see a note at
the bottom:

Retrieving email message 1 of 20 from sbcglobal.yahoo
)

I also see the blue "Online Task Progress" indicator that shows the
download process, but it is just hanging there and not making any
progress.

Obviously the connection to my e-mail server is working and the
download is in progress but it won't move on and finish. I've gone
through this before, leaving it untouch for an hour or so and it makes
only a miniscule amount of progress. It will eventually show something
like 50B of 125MB

To use an old expression, "It's as slow as molases in January!" Or,
"It's so slow it has to speed up to stop!" But, it is connected and
it is working, so my setup must be right or nearly right. Maybe I've
keyed something into the setup that causes this very slow download
process. All other Internet processes move along VERY fast.

Gordon

On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:57:39 -0600, wrote:

I'm sending this from my old computer, using Agent newsreader, while
watching my new computer's screen. I just opened Agent on the new
computer and clicked for a Send/Receive. The process seems to have
moved along well unilt the actual download began. I now see a note at
the bottom:

Retrieving email message 1 of 20 from sbcglobal.yahoo
)

I also see the blue "Online Task Progress" indicator that shows the
download process, but it is just hanging there and not making any
progress.

Obviously the connection to my e-mail server is working and the
download is in progress but it won't move on and finish. I've gone
through this before, leaving it untouch for an hour or so and it makes
only a miniscule amount of progress. It will eventually show something
like 50B of 125MB

To use an old expression, "It's as slow as molases in January!" Or,
"It's so slow it has to speed up to stop!" But, it is connected and
it is working, so my setup must be right or nearly right. Maybe I've
keyed something into the setup that causes this very slow download
process. All other Internet processes move along VERY fast.

A question in the Agent newsgroup can't do any harm.
alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent
--
Robin Bignall
Herts, England

On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:57:39 -0600, wrote:

I'm sending this from my old computer, using Agent newsreader, while
watching my new computer's screen. I just opened Agent on the new
computer and clicked for a Send/Receive. The process seems to have
moved along well unilt the actual download began. I now see a note at
the bottom:

Retrieving email message 1 of 20 from sbcglobal.yahoo
)

I also see the blue "Online Task Progress" indicator that shows the
download process, but it is just hanging there and not making any
progress.

Obviously the connection to my e-mail server is working and the
download is in progress but it won't move on and finish. I've gone
through this before, leaving it untouch for an hour or so and it makes
only a miniscule amount of progress. It will eventually show something
like 50B of 125MB

To use an old expression, "It's as slow as molases in January!" Or,
"It's so slow it has to speed up to stop!" But, it is connected and
it is working, so my setup must be right or nearly right. Maybe I've
keyed something into the setup that causes this very slow download
process. All other Internet processes move along VERY fast.

Gordon

I've been downloading an e-mail message on the new computer for the
past 35 minutes. I'm sending this message from the old computer.

The line at the bottom of the Microsoft Outlook pane shows 3.51 KB of
70 KB downloaded. This seems to indicate that the connection and the
firewall/router/modem setup is working but for some reason it is very
slow.

Is this possibly some motherboard/CPU setup error? Gordon

wrote:
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:57:39 -0600, wrote:

I'm sending this from my old computer, using Agent newsreader, while
watching my new computer's screen. I just opened Agent on the new
computer and clicked for a Send/Receive. The process seems to have
moved along well unilt the actual download began. I now see a note at
the bottom:

Retrieving email message 1 of 20 from sbcglobal.yahoo
)

I also see the blue "Online Task Progress" indicator that shows the
download process, but it is just hanging there and not making any
progress.

Obviously the connection to my e-mail server is working and the
download is in progress but it won't move on and finish. I've gone
through this before, leaving it untouch for an hour or so and it makes
only a miniscule amount of progress. It will eventually show something
like 50B of 125MB

To use an old expression, "It's as slow as molases in January!" Or,
"It's so slow it has to speed up to stop!" But, it is connected and
it is working, so my setup must be right or nearly right. Maybe I've
keyed something into the setup that causes this very slow download
process. All other Internet processes move along VERY fast.

Gordon

I've been downloading an e-mail message on the new computer for the
past 35 minutes. I'm sending this message from the old computer.

The line at the bottom of the Microsoft Outlook pane shows 3.51 KB of
70 KB downloaded. This seems to indicate that the connection and the
firewall/router/modem setup is working but for some reason it is very
slow.

Is this possibly some motherboard/CPU setup error? Gordon


I think we've ruled that out with other things that are working just
fine but wouldn't be if that were the cause.

It's something local; something in the settings or files used locally.

I'd scan the server inbox with something like Mailwasher myself, to see
if that can access it ok and download headers. From your Win8 machine,
of course.

Ed

wrote:
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:57:39 -0600, wrote:

I'm sending this from my old computer, using Agent newsreader, while
watching my new computer's screen. I just opened Agent on the new
computer and clicked for a Send/Receive. The process seems to have
moved along well unilt the actual download began. I now see a note at
the bottom:

Retrieving email message 1 of 20 from sbcglobal.yahoo
)

I also see the blue "Online Task Progress" indicator that shows the
download process, but it is just hanging there and not making any
progress.

Obviously the connection to my e-mail server is working and the
download is in progress but it won't move on and finish. I've gone
through this before, leaving it untouch for an hour or so and it makes
only a miniscule amount of progress. It will eventually show something
like 50B of 125MB

To use an old expression, "It's as slow as molases in January!" Or,
"It's so slow it has to speed up to stop!" But, it is connected and
it is working, so my setup must be right or nearly right. Maybe I've
keyed something into the setup that causes this very slow download
process. All other Internet processes move along VERY fast.

Gordon

I've been downloading an e-mail message on the new computer for the
past 35 minutes. I'm sending this message from the old computer.

The line at the bottom of the Microsoft Outlook pane shows 3.51 KB of
70 KB downloaded. This seems to indicate that the connection and the
firewall/router/modem setup is working but for some reason it is very
slow.

Is this possibly some motherboard/CPU setup error? Gordon

There is such a thing, as a "black hole router problem", where
the email server doesn't support the entire ICMP suite (of which
"ping" is a small part). But, if you had a problem with this,
your "send" on the new computer would be broken.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314825

I had a problem with that, with my old ISP. And changing the
MTU, was the best fix for it.

The symptoms in that case would be...

1) Sending a very small email, like "Hello World" in an email
to yourself, would work.

2) Sending an email with a couple hundred KB of text in it,
would jam up on send. Killing the client is about all you
can do in that case. The TCP/IP protocol has no recovery
in that case, and both sides are waiting for the other to
send more info.

I thought things like this were mitigated for you, on later
OSes, so the odds this is the problem are pretty slim. Still,
to debug your receive problem, you can run the "large email
send" test case, just to see if a problem exists on send.

The "3.71K" received, suggests more than one large packet
has been received. Which is why I'm not betting on this
being the problem. It should have broke slightly before
this, if it was a black hole routing problem.

Paul