| Re: Attn: JimBoss, Isis, etc..Astraweb, Giganews - speed? |
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| Hubchy (ablank.field@nothing.com) |
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From: Hubchy <ablank.field@nothing.com>
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Subject: Re: Attn: JimBoss, Isis, etc..Astraweb, Giganews - speed?
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Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:25:43 +1200
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On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:38:31 -0500, Isis <isis55423@hotpop.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:03:05 +1200, Hubchy <ablank.field@nothing.com> wrote:
>
>:I am now just about ready to move to either Astraweb or Giganews.
>:Now Astraweb's $11 a month unlimited deal looks very good and, as you
>:have pointed out patiently and persistently their retention is
>:extremely good.
>:
>:I'm wondering roughly what you find the respective download speeds of
>:Astraweb and Giganews to be. I realise that my speeds are probably
>:affected by different things than other people, but I've got my
>:experience with Easynews as a good baseline for NNTP.
>:
>:Regards, Hubchy
>
>Hi Hubchy,
>
>Every NSP I've ever tested has been so much faster than my ISP that there has
>never been any difference among them. Neither Giganews nor Astraweb offers HTTP,
>but if you wait until the latter half of December you can probably pick up an
>entire year of Newzbin for the cost of one month's savings with Astraweb.
>Meanwhile, BinSearch is free.
>
>The only real differences between Giganews & Astraweb are two:
>
>1) - Astraweb has an artificial limit on article posting size of 1.28 MB, while
>Giganews can handle 3.84 MB. This only affects posters, and only those posters
>who would like to post something much larger than a DVD, e.g., a 45 GB Blu-ray
>disc. Downloaders are unaffected by this article size difference.
>
>Here is a link that explains this in more detail:
>
>http://forums.newsbin.com/viewtopic.php?t=24228
>
>2) - Astraweb offers approximately 38,000 groups, whereas Giganews is currently
>around 109,000. This isn't quite as dramatic as it sounds, since there are a lot
>of dead groups out there that no one would ever want, and most of them aren't
>even alt.binaries. (Besides, Astraweb will add any group that you request.)
>
>The only reason I use Giganews is that I like to post a lot, and I also want to
>be able to post Blu-rays when the time comes. Otherwise, I would probably choose
>Astraweb.
>
>Isis
Manyh thanks for the useful info. Incidentally, I assume that you
meant to say that Astraweb has a limit on article posting size of 1.28
Gigs, not MBs?
Regardz, Hubchy
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