Usenet Newsreader Benchmark - Resultssome results from news server benchmarks Welcome to the results page for the usemark benchmark. This page hosts the results of some news servers that I have had personal experience with. Currently, measurement are included that compare giganews, supernews, and newsguy. To download usemark and benchmark your own servers, click the link below.
Standard Disclaimer: There are a great many factors that may influence the performance of a particular newsreader session, including all of the following:
Okay, on to the performance numbers. All of these measurements were performed using the usemark benchmark. Usemark was configured with 25 trials and to use an average of 512 KB messages. The newsgroup alt.binaries.sounds.mp3 was used. My connection to the Internet is a Comcast.net cable modem located on the west coast. The test was performaned at approximately 10:00pm pacific time.
The comcast/giganews and newsguy measurements were pretty much equivalent. Comcast/giganews had a slight edge over newsguy in throughput, but lagged a little in latency. There's enough variability in the measurements that we really can't declare a winner between the two. What really suprised me was supernews, which had a whopping 495 KB/s in throughput and a low latency of 0.753. I'd expected comcast to outperform the others because comcast is also my ISP. Again, I want to stress -- your mileage may vary -- depending on your internet connection, geographic location, and a host of other variables, you might find that you receive better or worse performance than what's listed above. I'd be interested to hear your results, and you're welcome to email them to me at webmaster@newsgroupdownloaders.com. |
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