On Sun, 01 Mar 2015 21:54:47 +0000, |--Spike=-
wrote:<fa27fal61i7dpee187uhgppdm0b8j2jm5h@4ax.com>
>Did it pass the parity check ?
He he, it didn't pass the OMG check. It's 43% incomplete. You can't
get to unbroke from there. If Astraweb weren't so cheap I'd drop them
in a heartbeat. A 1TB block runs $0.05USD per GB and I don't know of
anyone who approaches that.
It's too bad because they're a good server in every other aspect.
They're fast and steady (4 threads will saturate a 25Mbps pipe),
connecting is almost instantaneous, and I don't recall it ever
dropping the connection. I haven't checked retention lately but have
no reason to doubt their 2300+ day (6.5 yrs) claim. I believe they are
currently not expiring posts in this group.
alt.binaries.documentaries 74928396 - Giganews
alt.binaries.documentaries 74650184 - Astraweb
That's what Giganews is reporting at their website and retention for
AW I just got myself from the US server. Completion is really flakey
at the fringe though so I added a small block from Usenet-News. So far
they have had anything that was missing on Astraweb.
I do miss Giganews though. The whole time I used them I had a global
killfile on 'PAR' just to clean up the list. I literally didn't know
what QuickPar looked like until I switched to AW.
One last thing. At least this time the overview showed this post was
too incomplete to even attempt a download. The big problem with
Astraweb is their f*cking overview will often times show a post as
complete, but when you actually try to download it, in reality it has
so many parts missing it can't be repaired. In cases where no Pars
are supplied, all you can do is throw out what you managed to get.
The best money I ever spent was $22 to Usenet-News for a 200Gb block.
No more problems. I ought to send the bill to Astraweb! LMAO
Thanks for all you do and especially the NZBs. You know more about
what's around and where to get it than I ever will.
Regards,
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Plug for Usenet-News
2x the price of Astraweb but they have the goods.
http://usenet-news.net/
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