Goodbye Astraweb, Hello Supernews

On 30Mb and constantly get 3.64MB/sec or above on Astraweb (which I've been using for a year now). I am using SSL too on 12 connections.
 
sithlord said:
Astranews users, what servers and how many connections do you use to saturate 50 Mbps ? Ive been experimenting im finding splitting the load across multiple servers gives a good consistent speed around 5.8 MB/s but not 6.2 MB/s.
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I use 20 connections on an ssl port and it really flyes mate!
 
Sounds like your internet connection to me, Iv been with astraweb 2 years and NEVER had an issue, it maxes out my 19mb connection on BE.
 
did you try using the Europe servers over the international ones, my speeds were at 4.5ish Meg until I changed the the eu SSL and got full speeds again.
 
im with astra web but since upgrading to the 30mb down 3mb up its been very eratic with the main thing being packet loss. and extremely high pings
 
Gavin said:
im with astra web but since upgrading to the 30mb down 3mb up its been very eratic with the main thing being packet loss. and extremely high pings
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When you upgraded to 30Mbps, did you also 'upgrade' to the not-so-super hub? If so log into the hub and disable IP Flood Protection and Firewall. That should fix your packet loss and ping issue. :)
 
Out of curiosity, has anyone actually worked out whether it would be cheaper to jump on the fixed 180GB plan? I've just done the sums, and you need to be doing over 80GB a month to be saving money with the $11/m deal.

This is about twice what I do, so I'm changing to the fixed 180GB plan. It also means I can connect from as many IPs as I want, allowing me to achieve a 4.5mbps speed boost by load balancing with my other connection. This takes me from an average of 2.3MB/s to 2.8MB/s.
 
I was on the 180GB plan and moved to the monthly £7 plan but now that I have downloaded everything historical that was relevant to my interests (storage size wise) I might cancel this and go back to the 180GB plan and save £7 a month because I don't think I will be making enough use of the monthly plan as anything new I download is just that so could easily be done via Virgin's NNTP.

Although 2 things stop me going back.


1: Virgin's 7 day retention is fine, their non SSL and throttling isn't. On the Astraweb monthly plan I get 3.64+MB/sec

2: Switching servers is a bit of a pain each time ¬_¬
 
Are you a SAB user? I think it would be pretty easy to modify it (if someone hasn't already) to check if all parts exist on the first server and use one of two servers accordingly.

In fact, if you add VM server first and Astraweb second it may already do something like this....
 
I use Unzbin, tried SAB once, too much faff although I could do with using the web interface when I am not at home t send NZBs to my PC so it's downloaded and extracted ready when I sit at my desk when I get home.

This can be done?
 
Yes.

Personally, I use NZBMatrix with Sab, so when I bookmark something on NZBMatrix Sab checks the RSS feed every 15 minutes and downloads any bookmarked posts.

I also have Sickbeard attending to automatically grabbing TV stuff (only the legal stuff, obviously!) from NZBMatrix and sending it to Sab.
 
Khaaan! said:
I use Unzbin, tried SAB once, too much faff although I could do with using the web interface when I am not at home t send NZBs to my PC so it's downloaded and extracted ready when I sit at my desk when I get home.

This can be done?
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Indeed, I use sabnzbd+ for this
 
Hmm, will SAB also delete the bookmark once it has downloaded it?

Would be rather annoying to have to manually delete them!
 
Like the download queue, does the bookmark "queue" have a limitation too? I could check...but I have a work to don't :p
 
I've been using it for months, and have done nothing but simply add bookmarks and it keeps going.

That said, if you reinstall a clean copy of sab then you'll want to delete your bookmarks, otherwise you'll get all of them queued again.
 
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