Editing News server (section)

=== Speed ===
Speed, in relation to Usenet, is how quickly a server can deliver an article to the user.  The server that the user connects to is typically part of a server farm that has many servers dedicated to multiple tasks.  How fast the data can move throughout this farm is the first thing that affects the speed of delivery.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

The speed of data traveling throughout the farm can be severely bottlenecked through hard drive operations. Retrieving the article and overview information can cause massive stress on hard drives.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} To combat this, caching technology and cylindrical file storage systems have been developed. {{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

Once the farm is able to deliver the data to the network, then the provider has limited control over the speed to the user.  Since the network path to each user is different, some users will have good routes and the data will flow quickly.  Other users will have overloaded routers between them and the provider which will cause delays.  About all a provider can do in that case is try moving the traffic through a different route.  If the [[Internet service provider|ISP]] has limited connectivity to the network, routing changes may have little effect.

Frequently a user can reduce the impact of network problems by using multiple connections.  Some servers allow as many as 60 simultaneous connections, but this varies widely based on the provider.<ref>{{cite web |title=Usenet Server Connections Explained
 |url=http://www.techsono.com/usenet/faq/server-connections |publisher=TechSono Engineering |access-date=July 28, 2020 }}</ref>