Astraweb slowness

[xaznxeclipsex]

Has anyone notice any slowness from Astraweb lately?

[piercerseth]

Can you be more specific? Which servers: US or EU? Particular day and time? Your rated line speed vs what you're currently getting? Client setup? Ports?

[kulysses]

Yeah it has been happening a lot

[Beck38]

Can you be more specific? Which servers: US or EU? Particular day and time? Your rated line speed vs what you're currently getting? Client setup? Ports?

Apparently no response on those important questions.

As I've pointed out on several occasions, I'm on Astra/US just about as close to 24/7/365 and zero wobbles in the last couple of days (in fact, it's been just about a perfect couple of weeks).

Downloading at full speed all day today (going on some 12+ hours at this point, my link at full, maximum (25Mb/s+) without a hitch.

[pandalord]

do you have your client set for maximum connections?

[Beck38]

do you have your client set for maximum connections?

Of course not. One needs a little bit of bandwidth left over for doing 'little things' like checking 'filesharingtalk' or some other sites (or email) occasionally. Besides which, my link is well saturated with about 15 connections, then I let Sabnzb throttle things a bit, leaving some 3-4Mb/s 'free' for the aforementioned tasks.

If you think you're getting 'slowness', you might need to ramp back your expectations of throughput, especially if you have some huge amount of bandwidth in your link you 'think' you need to fully utilize; but we/I still haven't gotten answers from above.

[maxasspayne]

Working fine, full speeds as of late.

[piercerseth]

I've been having problems with their EU servers for the last week or so. Even off-peak. Although the reverse traceroute makes me think it's more likely a peering issue with Cogent and my ISP.

[nasa]

the only times i notice issues with astra are on monday evenings. especially with the EU servers. other than that they dont seem to give me any problems saturating my 50/25Mbps connection any time i try.

[Beck38]

For several months last year, it was Sunday PM from around 6 to 11 or so San Jose time (where the Astra/US server is), then 3-4 months ago it got highly variable, sometimes coming back on Sunday PM and every once in a while sometime during the week for 6 or so hours, no specific day/date.

The Sunday fun has been come and go the past couple months, I usually run things until around 6pm or so and keep an eye out, and any slowdowns I simply shut things down and wait it out (10-11pm or so). But I haven't seen any problems during the week for again, some 3-4 months. Knock on wood.

I don't have that kind of bandwidth where I live (okay, it's available, but not at a price I'm willing to shell out). I'm getting close to moving some time this year maybe, and get on FIOS if I can, but I may move to another state and stay on (expensive) cable.

[ger036]

Getting slow results downloading on US server right now. Thought it was a fluke so I rebooted, checked my accounts but something is up with my downloads. one TV show is showing 2 hours to complete when it shout be 10-20 minutes.

[jippyjosh]

I have found them to be better of late, I think any slowness is from use at peak times because of my ISP

[Gribley]

EU server I get 7.9MB downloads without any problems. Little off my max but that is more likely BT not them.... still have my Tweaknews backup but over the last several months it hasn`t needed it (glad I just did a block account on that then :))

[d12d]

Every once in a while I get a little slowdown from the EU servers but it is only very temporary. Overall speeds have been great.

[anagram]

EU servers slow at weekends for me

[happytaz]

Working fine for me, I max out my bandwidth when I use it(25Mbps). I don't use it 24/7 though.

[TypeSH]

longtime astraweb user. some issues in the past (4-5 years ago) but since then my connection is typically maxed.

[seka2]

Eu servers slow for me. I switched to US servers much faster.

[bugger]

I have been using Astraweb for about 5years and notice that Mostly the speeds are great with 1.2kb/s but could slow down to 250mb/s . I can only put it down to server stress and local ISP clutter, I dont bother too much its normal life so take good with bad. Plus would not complain too much as we all know the benefit of NZB for our pleasure.

[zeoclang]

Sometimes it is slow for me. However, after a day or two the speed goes back to normal.

[falgyn01]

Sometimes US SSL server speed comes to a crawl

[minimalist]

Sunday night it always crawls. I also get a lot of "502 Your per-user connection limit reached". I don't even use close to 20 connections.

[dragonmatter]

slow on Sundays

I also get a lot of "502 Your per-user connection limit reached"

[minimalist]

Another Sunday night, slow as usual.

[piercerseth]

Try their EU servers.

[Beck38]

Another Sunday night, slow as usual.

Yep, it really didn't hit until around 7pm (San Jose Time) and was well over by 10pm, so it wasn't as bad as it has been upon occasion (but then again, sometimes it's no slowdown at all, so...).

I tried running some NZBcc on the EU server, and it was slower than molasses in, well, February. Then about the time I tried the US server (and it took off without complaint) the EU did as well.

Just another day (or Sunday) in Astra-land.

[minimalist]

Slow Sunday's continue. EU server slow as well. Been with Astra for a couple of years but it looks like it's time to jump ship.

[Beck38]

So, you'll 'jump ship' since it gets slow for, at the most, 5 hours a week. Most the time it's less (or completely absent), but we'll go with the 5 hours figure, just fer fun.

Hmm, that figures out to around .03% of the time.

If that's all it takes to make you 'jump', then go for it.

[freelance86]

ive noticed it doesnt happen every week, but its usually around midday monday when it goes apeshit and starts driving me crazy with 502 errors. for 15 bucks every 2 months who really cares about 5 hours once a fortnight or so...

[hello1]

i havnt really noticed to many issues on centurylink i use the ssl us. im only getting around 5mbs since i changed my internet i use to get 11mbs when i hate my 100down line. but now i only have 20down. you guys cant complain for the price come on 7.5 a month even with a few slowdowns is a good deal.

[vigor5000]

Just signed on with them, why are they slow for 1 File it went fast (10-14mb/s) for the first 3GB then slowed down to 1-3mb/s for few GBs then back up a little.I Tried doing it several times and the slowdown is always at the same part of the download.

[Beck38]

How old are the files you're trying to retrieve? If you read my most recent dissertation on Astra/US problems (once again I have to remind folks to SPECIFY where they are trying to connect to) that I'm seeing generalized slowdowns today, perhaps because they are working on their plant trying to recover missing parts (hopefully).

[vigor5000]

How old are the files you're trying to retrieve? If you read my most recent dissertation on Astra/US problems (once again I have to remind folks to SPECIFY where they are trying to connect to) that I'm seeing generalized slowdowns today, perhaps because they are working on their plant trying to recover missing parts (hopefully).

The Files is about 504 days old and connected to US SSL server(10 c0nnections) Its going at about 400-500 KB/s.Even a file just uploaded now is going slow.

[Beck38]

I just tried to get something about 1050 days old, and it was going doing the 'go fast... go very very slow' routine as well

The upload was getting a bit of slowdown earlier (2-4 hours ago) today, but is going as fast as I can push it now (>5600Kb/s).

I watch them like a hawk (upload 24/7/356 except for maybe a half a day a week leeching whatever), so I generally know when thngs 'take a dump'. Like I said, right now (on uploading) it's going just fine.

[vigor5000]

Just played around with the servers and setting and noticed that US and EU SSL servers were using port 563, I changed it to 443 then i was able to hit 3-5MB/s, so for some reason I am getting slow speeds on port 563.I gave the ssl.astraweb.com server ago with 20 connections on port 443 and was able to get max 12mb/s with lots of slow downs.

[007av]

Use 443 for SSL, too easy for ISPs to throttle 563.

[Beck38]

Of course, anyone who really wants to avoid any such machinations from their 'local' isp/provider needs to be on a good VPN, and is therefore completely shielded from such nonsense, unless and until they start playing around with trying to slow down THAT traffic which will get the in really big trouble with their commercial customers (like me).

[hwg]

Works fine for me

[007av]

Of course, anyone who really wants to avoid any such machinations from their 'local' isp/provider needs to be on a good VPN, and is therefore completely shielded from such nonsense, unless and until they start playing around with trying to slow down THAT traffic which will get the in really big trouble with their commercial customers (like me).


True, I doubt they'll mess with a VPN tunnel anytime soon. My vpn limits me to 1MB down/up so it would cut my speed. Also Astraweb frequently throws account sharing errors when using.

[Beck38]

True, I doubt they'll mess with a VPN tunnel anytime soon. My vpn limits me to 1MB down/up so it would cut my speed. Also Astraweb frequently throws account sharing errors when using.

If you're getting such a slow throughput, you need to find a better provider. Of course, you tend to get what you pay for, and having a good VPN makes it about twice as expensive as the basic usenet account, but it encrypts everything out/in from my network (router VPN). I've never seen any sharing errors, only when I'm 'off network' and don't wait the 5min or so to let things settle. The key is probably having the router do 'everything to everything' on my home net.

[myself12345]

Just signed on with them, why are they slow for 1 File it went fast (10-14mb/s) for the first 3GB then slowed down to 1-3mb/s for few GBs then back up a little.I Tried doing it several times and the slowdown is always at the same part of the download.

This is the result of header issues not astraweb being slow.
If dont work from astra EU or US servers then you will have to try another provider