Servers And Bandwidth
Servers supply articles, and three different controls decide how fast and how much Weaver pulls from them.
Server
Section titled “Server”A server is one Usenet provider connection record in Settings → Servers: host, port, TLS, credentials, connection count, and whether it is active. Weaver probes TLS at save time and shows which cipher suite the server negotiated and whether it honors Weaver’s cipher order. See Servers.
Group orders servers. Lower groups are tried first, and servers in the same group share the load. The environment seeds call the same field PRIORITY.
Backfill
Section titled “Backfill”A backfill server is held back for articles the main servers could not supply: missing, corrupt, or outside their retention. Block accounts belong here, because a backfill server only spends bytes on what the fill tier failed.
Retention
Section titled “Retention”Retention in days tells Weaver how far back a server’s articles go. Older posts skip that server instead of wasting a request. 0 means unlimited.
Download Quota
Section titled “Download Quota”A per-server download quota is a hard byte limit per period: one-time, daily, weekly, or monthly, reset at a local time of day. A server at its quota is skipped, and the queue shows Server quota when every eligible server is exhausted. Usage can be reset by hand.
Speed Limit
Section titled “Speed Limit”The speed limit is a rate ceiling. The global limit lives in the queue header and Settings → General. Each server can carry its own ceiling too. 0 means unlimited.
ISP Bandwidth Cap
Section titled “ISP Bandwidth Cap”The ISP bandwidth cap is a byte allowance per daily, weekly, or monthly window, configured in Settings → ISP Bandwidth Cap. When the window is exhausted Weaver stops dispatching new downloads until the reset, and the queue shows ISP cap. Windows follow the server’s local timezone.
Global Pause
Section titled “Global Pause”Global pause stops download dispatch for the whole queue while post-processing stages already running continue. Pause All and Resume All in the queue header control it, and schedules can flip it.
Schedule
Section titled “Schedule”A schedule is a recurring rule in Settings → Schedules: a time, a day set, and an action. Actions are pause, resume, set a speed limit, pause watch folder scanning, and resume watch folder scanning. An empty day set means every day.
Related
Section titled “Related”- Servers covers every field and the environment seeds.
- Bandwidth And Schedules puts the three controls together.