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Because it's free, but there are other free clients if you do not want to pay, eg... Alt.binz, and SABNZbd to name 2, there are more free ons' can't think of em right off hand, and there are some good pay ones, Newsleecher and Newsbin and I think from appearance and options Usenet Explorer is one of the best.
Another thing worth mentioning is that I've found a lot of times the problem with bad completion is not the server itself -- sometimes file corruption occurs during the process of downloading. It has happened to me in the past that in a downloading session nearly every rar would be incomplete. I would try doing different things while re-downloading them. Like changing to a different news client, switching to non-SSL server. Using just one connection. Stopping all other P2P. It often makes a big difference.
Sometimes re-downloading the same file again doing nothing different would get a perfect file the second time.
I also discovered that a poor WI-FI connection will cause incompletes.
zot, that system sounds like an absolute nightmare to troubleshoot. Antivirus interference, unreliable Wi-Fi connections, pipe saturated by P2P connections...
I can honestly say that if I ever had an incomplete file via newsgroups, I was able to track down the cause, sometimes only by poring over NNTP session log files until my vision got blurry.
I'm trying to grab true.blood.211.720p-dimension and true.blood.210.720p-dimension (both posted by a.b.mm@efnet) off of the us and eu ssl servers of astraweb and almost every file is incomplete (age is under 200days).
If somebody could check and please give me advice on how i can d/l this on SSL, thanks :)
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Originally Posted by padawan
You can't! Astraweb is borked for a lack of better words. There is discussions about it on other sites as well. I think the general consensus is some things/anything over 180 days to 280 days or around there is effed up to the point of no repair. Some have even said anything over 450 days to. I am surprised there is no discussion about it here, but then again, the positive Astraweb force is strong here. :D:whistling
If you really want it and anything else in that date range you will need to get either a separate account to use as a fill account or buy a block account for fills and set it up in your newsreader, a tutorial to set this up shouldnt be hard to find, they have been getting a lot of reading as of late!
cheers. i went with astraweb because everybody and their dog was telling how awesome it is. okay, not everybody :D
gonna try supernews next month, i can live with their lower retention as long as they also provide what they promise
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to clarify:
this is not the first time i came across incompletes and i'm afraid it won't be the last time. if this was the first time or if a few pars could fix it, no problem. one reason i pay for this stuff, i want fire and forget and not to worry about incompletes, no matter which age (as long as within their retention). if another provider can provide me with this, then good for him, i'll gladly switch.
Maybe that post will cause padawan to 'give up and go back to torrents', I hope not.
On Astraweb, 211.rar is missing 48 of 130 articles or 37%.
Giganews got a DMCA takedown notice for that post. Since Supernews is part of Giganews, the post is probably incomplete on Supernews as well. They remove only the first article of each file, but sometimes there aren't enough recovery blocks posted.
In another thread padawan reveals that the newsreader 'Newsbin Pro' is used.
Read this disgusting topic on the Newsbin Pro board about how the wise(?) programmers stripped away fill servers' ability to only download articles that are missing on the primary server:
http://forums.newsbin.com/viewtopic.php?t=25404
hi mesaman, thank you for your answer. i also found some other threads about this specific problem on google.
i guess i'm gonna get a block-account as hdjunky suggested. is usenet-news a good choice? it seems they are with highwinds and that is different then astraweb, right?
Highwinds is getting DMCA takedown notices for HBO shows, but so far Blocknews.net doesn't seem to be affected.
Usenetnews is good but a bit more expensive than blocknews i suppose you can not go wrong either way though, but i didnt know that about the HBO shows and highwinds, good to know!Quote:
Originally Posted by padawan
That is ridiculous and a very needed feature in a news reader now a days. Why would they take it out is beyond me!Quote:
Originally Posted by mesaman