Astraweb & Pan

[Funkin']

Thank you rippinitup. I like that making hellanzb an icon suggestion. Never thought of that. And that's easier than opening terminal and typing hellanzb.

And yeah, when I got hellanzb running last night, I ran two nzb's just to see how the program was. And you're right, it is kind of a resource hog considering it's running from terminal. Hellanzb is using roughly twice the cpu than Pan does on my computer. So that kind of sucks. But...I like how Hellanzb shows each of my connections running and what they're doing. Something that Pan doesn't. So for this reason I might stick with hellanzb.

Another thing I noticed, is that when hellanzb starts going, all of my connections will be downloading. But then a couple minutes into the download only one of the connections is downloading(the first one). I don't think it's Astraweb since I started the same download in alt.binz, and every connection will be downloading all the way through.

You ever come across that with hellanzb?

Hmmm...I'll defintely check out NTTPGrab. Sounds pretty nice. I'll try it out after I finally get SabNZBd up and running. I found someone that actually made and miantains a .deb package of Sabnzbd. So I'm going to try that and see how the resources are. It should be a lot easier for me to setup since it's a .deb. Here is the link if you're interested.

Thanks for the help. I'll give you a pm since I have more Linux questions.

EDIT: After looking at those screens for NTTPGrab(thanks for including all that), it looks like what I've been wanting under Linux. As long as it's as light as Pan, then this may be my new newsreader. I like how it looks like GrabIt. Something I'm very familiar with. I'll get it all tested out after Sabnzbd.

But thanks for letting me know about that. It looks great.

[Rott3n]

Thank you Ripinitup, I been looking for a good binary download client for Linux for some time. I never really liked Pan that much. LottaNZB and NNTPGrab are just what I was looking for. I like how simple LottaNZB is and how it saves and organizes downloads. The GUI in NNTPGrab displays more info and is pretty simple as well. Thanks again.

[rippinitup4fun]

@Funkin. No I have not had the connection issue with hellanzb, but I am still using Ubuntu 8.04 this could just be a bug with hella and 8.10.

@Rott3n. Your welcome.

[Funkin']

Yeah, that could be. NNTPGrab is a great looking newsreader. The best looking one I've came across on Linux so far. I have gotten Sabnzbd running though, and I am loving it. When I first got it working earlier today, it was slowing my browsing down in FF. But now I've tried it again, and my browsing is just as fast as it was without Sabnzbd running. Perhaps maybe because I set the refresh rate from 5 seconds to 1 minute.

As long as my browsing continues to keep being fast when Sabnzbd is running(the staff on Sabnzbd forums says that it shouldn't interfere with the browsing at all), then I think I might have found my new Linux news reader. It's pretty much non-exsistant in the resources dept. It uses even less than Pan does. And I love how you control everything right from your browser. And there are some nice skins for it too.

So as long as Sabnzbd hold up well, then I'm going to keep using it. If not, I'm going to switch to NNTPGrab.

Thanks for your help.

[rippinitup4fun]

Yeah, that could be. NNTPGrab is a great looking newsreader. The best looking one I've came across on Linux so far. I have gotten Sabnzbd running though, and I am loving it. When I first got it working earlier today, it was slowing my browsing down in FF. But now I've tried it again, and my browsing is just as fast as it was without Sabnzbd running. Perhaps maybe because I set the refresh rate from 5 seconds to 1 minute.

As long as my browsing continues to keep being fast when Sabnzbd is running(the staff on Sabnzbd forums says that it shouldn't interfere with the browsing at all), then I think I might have found my new Linux news reader. It's pretty much non-exsistant in the resources dept. It uses even less than Pan does. And I love how you control everything right from your browser. And there are some nice skins for it too.

So as long as Sabnzbd hold up well, then I'm going to keep using it. If not, I'm going to switch to NNTPGrab.

Thanks for your help.

Been awhile since I messed around with Sabnzbd, maybe I will give it another try. I have just gotten comfortable with hellanzb.

On another note the only gripe I had with linux newsreaders was that none of them had true bandwidth throttling. Hellanzb just stops and starts instead of an actual throttle like Alt.Binz does. Until I found out about 'trickle' So if you share your connection with others it can be handy to have that way they don't bitch at you for using all the speed or if you wanna be able to browse the web without it feeling like dial up. It is in the repos.

Then all you have to do is create a little bash script for easy running. right click desktop>create document>empty file

#!/bin/bash
trickle -s -d 'speed in KB/s' 'Program'

Give it a name then right click>properties>permissions>tick the execute box and hit apply

the -s tells it to run in standalone mode, -d is the rate limit in KB/s, followed by the terminal command to start your newsreader.

From there all you have to do is double click the script and run or run in terminal

[naq]

Sabnzbd has bandwidth throttling. I haven't tried most of the other newsreaders mentioned in this thread, but Sabnzbd just works very conveniently. I set it up to monitor a folder, and it picks up both nzbs and zip files. Once in the queue, it won't download the par files unless necessary. Then, files are extracted and deleted without a hitch.

[Funkin']

I'll keep trickle in my mind rippinitup for when I use hellanzb. Right now I'm just switching back and forth between readers since I can`t decide on which one to stay with.

And naq, with monitoring folders with Sabnzb. Does Sabnzbd have to already be running and in your browser for it to start downloading the nzb you drop into a folder? Or would it automatically start when you drag and drop an nzb into a monitored folder?

I thought I read somewhere that hellanzb can do that.

[naq]

Sabnzbd needs to be running to monitor a folder. It is still running in the background (or in a terminal depending on how you start it) when you close the web interface (unless you click the shutdown button).

[rippinitup4fun]

I just started using Sabnzbd+ again and found a great Firefox plugin for it. I guess I never really gave SAB a try, I just got to comfortable with Hellanzb.

@Funkin': You are right it uses such little CPU & Ram that if I did not know i was running it and downloading I would never guess it was running in the first place it truly is that 'light weight' for a newsreader

@naq: bandwidth throttling works great with it. LOL I have been using 'trickle' to limit this whole time VIA Hellanzb. I really did almost give up hope that "True" bandwidth throttling VIA usenet downloading in linux was just almost non existent . Guess not, cheers fellas, I got my new reader

Perfect FF plugin for all that are interested:
https://nzbdstatus.bountysource.com/

EDIT:
For those using 'Ubuntu 7.10 - 8.10' here is a nice source you can add to your repository listings this way you get Install, Uninstall, Updates and all that straight through Synaptic or terminal...Nice, clean, and effective

http://forums.sabnzbd.org/index.php?topic=387.0

[Funkin']

Yeah, I've really been testing Sabnzbd these past few days, and I have defintely found my new newsreader. I can't believe I never tried it on a Windows, guess I was just too hooked on alt.binz. I like it more than alt.binz now.

I wonder how the devs got it to use such low resources. I also wonder if it's as lite on Windows.

Thanks for that FF plugin. I'llgive it a shot and see how it is. And Repository, that is different than the one you helped me with in pm isn't? The one that I couldn't find because it was hiding in Origins?

It must be different since I think the one I'm talking about doesn't update itself in Synaptics like this one.