I'm also on Astraweb and use Agent Newreader.
Commercial version # 4.2 for dowloading.
Uploading is a very different matter...
Also, I use a very old free firewall.
Extremely basic, it detects the incoming & outcoming pings.
A lot of IP to manage to begin with but once the known one are
configured, it remain quite, mostly.
I have to either accept of refuse connection for a specific IP# and
the port. Most newservers connect through port 119.
So... I see that Astraweb use quite a few IP# that sometimes.
Later found that many do not appear to belong to them.
Carried a reversed lookuo on more than a few...
Just as if they'd have a contract with some computer maniac who bought
a heck of a huge machine somewhere in the US.
For the IP# I carries a reversed lookup, that is.
This being said... Do you have any idea what retention Astraweb offer?
Here, I mean how far one user can go back in time to get post?
Tell me how many years there could be in some 1,200 days ?
I don't think that Astraweb bought so many huge hard drives...
No! They resorted to other means but I guess that any of their
"Partners" are connected through optic fiber.
Though, they might not have super reliable machines that stores "Oldy"
posts.
From this,you may come to your own conclusion.
Personnally, I don't give a sh*t on the methods they resort to in
order to manage their retention as long as they don't piss me out on
an oldy post that I want. PAR files cover most of the incompletes.
Indeed, there were real good ones a few years back.
Yes Sam.
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On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 19:53:42 -0500, TonyZ <up@yours.com> wrote:
>My new ISP is doing it's bullshit throttling even though I'm limiting
>my downloads to one connection from Astraweb. If the ISP is not
>throttling the downloads come down at about 1000 kBps. Once the
>throttling hits it's avergaing about 100 kBps but very spiky at 300
>kBps speaks when you look at Grabit's little download speed history.
>
>I've been switching between downloading from ssl-us.astraweb.com,
>ssl.astraweb.com and ssl-eu.astraweb.com and that is, so far working.
>But who knows for the future.
>
>So do any NNTP ISPs have more domain names setup just for this
>problem?
>
>Unfortunately I'm pretty much limited to this ISP who is a telco. The
>cable ISP is a lot worse I've heard.
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