Painfully slow downloading newsgroup

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Hi All,

I recently decided to bring out my mac desktop to act as a type of home server for the wife and kids, so far all is good, except for the newsgroups.

When im downloading from the newsgroup I get a very slow download speed, typical a file of 2gig is taking around 30mins to download

If I was to download the same file, via my pc, its takes around 4 mins

I have tried switching servers and ports from the news provider and so far tried using 5 different readers on my mac, including Sabnzb, Unison and Nzbvortex, all give the same results

Am i missing somthing here or is the mac just plain slow when it comes to newsgroups?

many thanks to anyone who replys with my issue.
 

chscag

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I use Thunderbird 5.0 for OS X and have no problems whatsoever downloading newsgroups. Note that Thunderbird is also a very good mail client.
 

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