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On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 09:28:04 -0800, drek <none@none.invalid> wrote:
>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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Hi drek :)
I asked if it passed the parity check because 'Frustrated' seemed to
be pointing to an extraction error but didn't mention a parity
checking error.
So I was wondering... was PARity even checked before trying to
extract.
If PARity was checked and passed... then the files failed on
extraction... then that points to a Bad Archive set.
If the PARity failed, then (as we all know).. extraction will probably
fail.
I had no knowledge about the incompletion rate of the files posted or
wether the PARity would have been able to rebuild the missing blocks.
I was sort of working from the ground up, with the whole thing.
I have heard that AstraWeb are on a downward spiral, and I'm seeing a
lot of people that are using Astraweb starting to have more and more
problems getting the service that they pay for.
As far as Usenet server service goes... sounds like you know a lot
more of the in and outs than I do :)
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