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Hi,

At the moment I'm downloading a DVD, which takes ages. To be specific, the last DVD finished at 14:45:42. Now it is 19:30. So this DVD(5) took about 5 hours to download about 25%. Might this be a DVD that got corrupted on purpose?  Like they do with torrents?

Macamba

Edit - Some data:
Version: 0.4.9
OS: Windows XP SP3
Install-type: that would be the Windows Installer (SABnzbd-0.4.9-win32-setup.exe)
Skin: Default
Firewall Software: XP SP3 Firewall
Are you using IPV6? no
Is the issue reproducible? Shrug 

Second Edit:
My download speed is 921.61 KB/s. So it should take about one and a half hour to download.

Is the job on the edge of the retention period of your provider?
With some providers, old stuff takes more time.
Do you use multiple servers? Some providers take a very long time before admitting that they do not have an article.

It is not sabotage, the speed of Usenet is not influenced by the content.

shypike wrote: Is the job on the edge of the retention period of your provider?

No. It was one day old. And as far as I could see, everything was available.

shypike wrote: Do you use multiple servers? Some providers take a very long time before admitting that they do not have an article.

No. Only one. But it used 3 groups.

shypike wrote: It is not sabotage, the speed of Usenet is not influenced by the content.

Thanks for the answer.

Macamba

Conclusion: could be your provider, could be SABnzbd.
If it doesn't happen again, it's very likely to have been a temporary problem with your provider.

Do you use SSL? Most internet providers set the speed of usenet connections to second priority (HTTP has first priority) So if there are lots of people downloading from http or torrents and you are downloading from usenet, torrents and http get first priority and you second what ends up that you probably have lower speeds when the internet provider has an to slow network. When using SSL, the internet provider can't see if you are using http, usenet or torrents so it gets first priority.

The second thing that could couse slow download speeds are if your computer is to slow or very active at the moment. Check if the task manager to see how much sabnzbd+ takes from the processor. also defrag your hard drive (if heavily defragmentized)

I do appreciate you help, but the problem popped up again today. I started a download, and the unrarring is still busy. The download ended at 15:59. The logfile states it completed decoding at 16:24:53,890. The _UNPACK_ directory is created at 18:09, and at 19:46 SABnzbd+ is still chugging along.

I do not think it is the download speed. The history of the download states:
Stage Download
    [Time-Taken]: 1 hour 15 minutes 11 seconds
    [Avg-Speed]: 1041kB/s

So I must conclude something is not working on my PC. And when I view the task manager I see that UnRAR.exe uses 0% CPU cycles. When I looked at the properties of the process I saw that the priority was set to 'low'. I upped it to 'normal'. But I do not see any changes in the speed.

FWIW, the other week I executed a repair of my OS. The week before that I did a complete fresh install. So me thinks defragmentation is not an issue (famous last words?)

Edit:
The downloads are stored on a separate external harddrive. I will check that disk as soon as the download completes.

Any other ideas?

How long does the history say the par2 and unrar stages take?
How long does it take if you manually unpack or move something to your external hard drive?
Does the problem go away if you change the download directory to an internal hard drive?