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I'm new to the newsgroup scene but been using torrents and rapidshare for years. For the past three months Ive been using my isp and its capped to 512 kbps with 4 connects. We live in a instant gratification day in age. So like most of us when u see something u want it sooner than later.
So doing some research Ive narrowed it down to Supernews and Astraweb(cost to performance based). If anyone could share with me there past experience with the company's it would be very appreciated.
Supernews = giganews = more mpa takedowns than astraweb.
I guess my next question is do more connections really mean faster dl speeds? Im running a 7mps connection.
So i went with supernews. Thanks for the recommendation c0ld. I was instantly impressed with the speeds im getting. Newsgroups for now on for this guy.
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Originally Posted by jordash
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ahahaahaha
c0ld's point was, you should go with astraweb NOT supernews.
as for connections please see this;
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1885
I had an argument with the shills from giganews over on slyck once, after their 'huge' announcement of upgrading to 50 connections. For most people, anything over 10 is overkill. The more threads you have, the more CPU and hard-disk resources you are going to consume to download the same articles. There are very few points on a network that more connections will lead to a higher prioty for your traffic either, because most of the bottlenecks occur when your connection is inside an L2TP tunnel. The only benefit of more connections come when you live in some distant part of a 3rd world country, ie where the number of hops between you and the server is high and the routers on those hops as less than stellar quality.Quote:
Originally Posted by jordash
Oops? Supernews isn't too bad though, it's an easy second imo.Quote:
So i went with supernews. Thanks for the recommendation c0ld. I was instantly impressed with the speeds im getting. Newsgroups for now on for this guy.
So supernews gets stuff taken off but Astraweb doesnt??? I got into supernews this month and I've been very impressed.
Is there any info to back up this statement about takedowns. I thought content was the same for all providers as long as you had binary access.
not really, just the occasional comment here and there from ppl on giganews who get 'article not found' errors.Quote:
Originally Posted by whiteboy
As said, number of connections, 20 is more than enough. I've used 100Mbit connections that maxed out at 12 connections with Astraweb. I switched from Giganews and have been very happy with them since. The cable connection I use now I use 3 US and 3 Euro SSL connections and I max my connection 100% of the the time.
So supernews is the same as giganews??
Ah I see, thanks for that. I have been extremely happy with supernews. Havent found any files that have been removed so far.
Hardly any providers remove files, I think the last time a server removed something was when the X-Men Origins: Wolverine WORKPRINT was leaked.Quote:
Originally Posted by whiteboy
I'm not sure about the new coming providers, but the well established providers don't :).
I have Supernews as well. I am perfectly happy with there service :D I use 29 out of the 30 connections because that is what they recommended I do, even though that probably is overkill I still max out usually. :D
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Originally Posted by dette
please refer to
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1885
I use 10 on my crappy 3mb dsl line and it seems to be fine. Max speed pretty much all the time. (supernews)
i'm using Astraweb now as they have $11/month unlimited thing..
never had any problems so far.
I use 6 connections to Astraweb and max out my 6meg dsl at 625K/sec consistently when downloading. You really shouldn't need 29 connections to max out anything short of a Fios connection.
I am now using 10 connections on my Hackintosh Box and I seem to be maxing out fine
I have the 96/yr Astraweb plan. #2 in retention at a third world price. 11/month is just fine too. Used it in US, SE and AU and it's worked flawlessly, even with a 100Mbit connection.
Damn nice. Astraweb is where I would go if I wanted to switch :)Quote:
Originally Posted by topicaltapioca
What speeds did you have in AU and how many connections did you use?Quote:
Originally Posted by topicaltapioca
It seems that Giganews Inc. has chosen to hold the retention of Supernews to 350 days (vs. Astraweb's 480+), even though they're currently spooling up the servers, and Giganews own retention, like Astraweb's and Highwinds, increases every day. Powerusenet, another Giganews-owned reseller (if that's not an incorrect term) had its retention jump in spurts: from 125 days, to 200, to the current 400. The question is will Supernews still be at 350 when Astraweb and Giganews are pushing 700?
hMM THATS TRUE, iM HAPPY WITH SUPERNEWS BUT THIS MIGHT MAKE ME JUMP TO ASTRAWEB. (stupid caps)Quote:
Originally Posted by zot
There is a button on your keyboard that looks like an arrow pointing left. It is often accompanied by text reading 'Backspace'. It is very useful.Quote:
Originally Posted by whiteboy
If I cared that much to take the time I would have. Hopefully my post in caps didn't ruin your day too much.Quote:
Originally Posted by c0ldThere is a button on your keyboard that looks like an arrow pointing left. It is often accompanied by text reading 'Backspace'. It is very useful.Quote:
Originally Posted by whiteboy
i am useing Astraweb i am likeing it already:w00t::w00t:
This is a very, very good point which I have already thought of. I will be jumping to Astraweb if Supernews retention doesnt change. Or mayber UseNetServer because they also have a $10 dealQuote:
Originally Posted by zot
youd be better off with astraweb.
I have tried both and they are both good enough for me.
I went with Astraweb $96/year plan recently because it's just easier to take care of it in one shot.
The only drawback is that I've seen some slower speeds during high peak times due to the popularity of AW. But I don't monitor that closely so maybe it was a freak thing.
It could be you ISP doing that and not Astra, I rarely if ever see any gigantic speed drops, if I do, I un-plug modem/router for a few minutes and back to normal, it seems I have to do this about every 2 weeks or so....
Im using supernews but the sheer fact that astraweb has almost 100 days more retention is making me think I should cancel supernews before they bill me again.
Is there any real reason not too? I only get 350kb/s downloads so Im assuming they can max that out all the time.
Hmmm.. Thats what I am thinking too :/ I want more retentionQuote:
Originally Posted by whiteboy
Threads like this dont help though.
http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-general-newsgroups-79/t-slow-and-inconsistent-speeds-astraweb-383090
They seem to be having issues I'll probably wait another month to see if they can fix things.
I've found that many older NZB's are incomplete on Astraweb.. I've downloaded tons of HD movies and many are missing 5-10 rars that I have to try and find other places because they're not available on any Astraweb server and I don't have enough blocks to repair, even though they say it's 470 day retention and 99% complete..
I've actually gotten fed up and I bought a megaupload account to go along with my Astra sub.. Anything older than 150-200 days I just get with MU to avoid incompletes.
Same here. Thats very unfortunate. I just paid for this month on Supernews so I will wait that out anywaysQuote:
Originally Posted by whiteboy
Im very happy with supernews so I guess if it aint broke dont fix it.Quote:
Originally Posted by detteSame here. Thats very unfortunate. I just paid for this month on Supernews so I will wait that out anywaysQuote:
Originally Posted by whiteboy
enjoy then :)
Good point you have here :)Quote:
Originally Posted by whiteboyIm very happy with supernews so I guess if it aint broke dont fix it.Quote:
Originally Posted by dette
Well to be honest, you missing 150 days of content staying with Supernews....I've been finding myself downloading old TV shows I cannot find at the rental stores here (we have like 15 in the general are if not more :lol:) and most are at 400-450 days and work great :)
Yah I agree with you there. I just keep reading about the issues they are having. I never really find anything that is older then 350 days. But I'd rather have that retention.Quote:
Originally Posted by SonsOfLiberty
I still have a few days to cancel super I might go for it. Has astra been going good lately? Are you getting full speeds always? (I'm in the US)