Astraweb

Robert · 26 Jun 2011 at 14:37

Has anyone else had a lot of incompletes lately?

Locky · 26 Jun 2011 at 15:57

Robert said:
Has anyone else had a lot of incompletes lately?

Yes lots, and its stating to **** me off.

ssmacc · 26 Jun 2011 at 16:53

Not noticed any problems myself...Do mean files marked as incomplete or other files?

stoke1863 · 26 Jun 2011 at 16:54

Yes i have actually

sithlord · 26 Jun 2011 at 21:29

Astraweb isnt that great anymore.. the speeds are hit and miss if it can max out my 50meg line.

I have a newshosting account and a usenetnow account (tier 1) .. Id say usenetnow has the slight edge for speeds and value for money.

Btw my astraweb account - is the worse one out of the three for speeds and will be cancelled soon (retention isnt bad better than newshosting).

cp88 · 26 Jun 2011 at 21:52

Shame supernews doesn't have slightly higher rentention, its pretty awesome.. even 900 days would do.

Every other newsgroup provider I've tried there has been missing files + failed starts.

sithlord · 26 Jun 2011 at 22:51

cp88 said:
Shame supernews doesn't have slightly higher rentention, its pretty awesome.. even 900 days would do.

Every other newsgroup provider I've tried there has been missing files + failed starts.

Supernews are giganews resellers, they should be good. Doubt they will increase retention as they would then cannibalise giganews sales.

cp88 · 26 Jun 2011 at 23:31

sithlord said:
Supernews are giganews resellers, they should be good. Doubt they will increase retention as they would then cannibalise giganews sales.

Yup

Dist · 26 Jun 2011 at 23:58

I've had no issues with astraweb at all, it easily maxes my 20Mb connection and the only time I've had missing part issues was when I tried to download something that was over 1000 days old.

Edit: Although I just tried a big download to test and this afternoon it seems to have poor speed an tons of missing parts. Something wrong with astraweb servers? It was perfectly fine this morning.

dbmzk1 · 27 Jun 2011 at 00:21

Yea it got so bad with incompletes and slow speeds I switched to the cheaper Supernews and have not looked back, it's been flawless completion wise and it always maxes out my 50mb Virgin cable

CSA · 27 Jun 2011 at 10:37

Robert said:
Has anyone else had a lot of incompletes lately?

yup , but wasnt sure what was causing it ! so astra are to blame ?

sithlord · 27 Jun 2011 at 12:20

CSA said:
yup , but wasnt sure what was causing it ! so astra are to blame ?

Yeah Astraweb.

I made a short youtube clip last month when I was trying find out why the speeds were slow:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z10Cpt3kkk

Normally Astraweb struggles to get above 5 MB/s. They have multiple servers on the same DNS for load balancing so sometimes you get a "good one" but most times not.

Tachyon · 27 Jun 2011 at 21:57

Been getting a lot of this recently as well, wasn't sure what the problem was.

elbulus · 28 Jun 2011 at 01:59

Also been noticing a lot of incomplete files on Astraweb, thought it was just me but guess i was wrong.

Gonna give it till my current month ends then see if it's still happening if so time for a switch.

BloodyL · 28 Jun 2011 at 03:29

Supernews is Giganews:
http://www.criticalpath.net/2008/19...er-messaging-with-sale-of-usenet-service.html

Reppyboyo · 13 Aug 2011 at 20:47

Getting incomplete and connection issues now.

Shame as I liked Astraweb's pay as you download.

Pho · 13 Aug 2011 at 20:55

Reppyboyo said:
Getting incomplete and connection issues now.

Shame as I liked Astraweb's pay as you download.

http://usenet-news.net/ have block accounts too; by their own admission their website looks rubbish but they're very fast and have all the usual SSL over various ports (80, 81 etc) and offer block accounts (which are slightly cheaper than Astrawebs last time I looked).

Dave85 · 13 Aug 2011 at 21:18

Think I am going to give supernews a bash also been getting issues with older files on astra.

balls · 14 Aug 2011 at 08:43

Which server are you connected to?
I've had no problems with EU SLL server

xb8browney · 14 Aug 2011 at 08:47

balls said:
Which server are you connected to?
I've had no problems with EU SLL server

Same here, always use EU SSL with no problems.