Newsreaders

[MintHat]

I've tried several newsreaders now like pan, xpn and lottanzb, and with all of them i've noticed that
when looking at the system monitor's network history, that besides leeching it also uploads at rates between 40 and 60
KB/s. (When i stop leeching, the upload speed drops to zero)

Are they supposed to do that? Since that's about half my upload speed.
It already sent about 800mb out since i started downloading today.

Any suggestions are welcome

[remoulder]

You seem to be confusing newsreaders with bittorrent here? News readers don't upload anything unless you tell them to, they are like email clients. There will of course be necessary network maintenance traffic.

[MintHat]

You seem to be confusing newsreaders with bittorrent here? News readers don't upload anything unless you tell them to, they are like email clients. There will of course be necessary network maintenance traffic.

No, I'm not confused about bittorrent. I'm aware about network maintenance traffic, but it shouldn't consume 60kb/s even if I'm downloading at 1800kb/s. Atleast as far i can remember newsleecher (for windows) never did this.

Maybe it's a ghost in the machine

[remoulder]

No, I'm not confused about bittorrent

Perhaps it was your saying

besides leeching it also uploads at rates between 40 and 60KB/s. (When i stop leeching, the upload speed drops to zero)

that made me think this? What has leeching got to do with newsreaders, these is torrent terminology? I run xpn and occasionally pan and I don't see the behaviour you report.

[MintHat]

No, I'm not confused about bittorrent

Perhaps it was your saying

besides leeching it also uploads at rates between 40 and 60KB/s. (When i stop leeching, the upload speed drops to zero)

that made me think this? What has leeching got to do with newsreaders, these is torrent terminology? I run xpn and occasionally pan and I don't see the behaviour you report.

Oh Yes, sorry about that. Leeching is a torrent word.

I,ve made some screenshots to clarify (hopefully)
The first one, is with pan connected, the second while disconnected.

[remoulder]

I can only assume it is due to the way you are using it. Sorry I cannot help you further.

[conslie]

I believe what you are seeing is the usual error checking protocol at work. Someone will correct me if this is way off, but Internet traffic is sent in packets which include the data plus a checksum that will either match what the data should yield or not. In response toe receiving that data and checksum, the downloading machine replies by saying either 'got it OK' or 'not OK, resend it.' Someone here could probably give the exact ratio between the up and down bytes with a flawless connection, but not me.

Edit to add, the "total uploaded" number is not set to zero on each restart of System Monitor, but, just a guess, the total of all the activity when System Monitor was monitoring the activity. The 'Help' menu item gives some ways to explore this more fully.