Gotta love Astraweb - Retention

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Originally Posted by hdjunky

All this high retention is great so everyone can show off there e-peens I guess. :D

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Astraweb: 710d 711d
Blocknews: 713d
Giganews: ???

I think the giganews fanboys are a bit shy.

I meant Giganews is in this high retention course. I never used them so I could not possibly comment on actual retention :)

Isn't Blocknews a Giganews reseller ?

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Originally Posted by unoriginal

And $10.19/mo through this link: http://usenetnow.net/woot.html

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AW is $8 a month if you buy a whole year.

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Originally Posted by chakara

Isn't Blocknews a Giganews reseller ?

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That's supernews, who have a restricted retention.

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Astraweb: 710d 711d
Blocknews: 713d
Giganews: ???

I think the giganews fanboys are a bit shy.

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I just luv that giganews bashing by astraweb fanboys


Advertised: 717 days


715 days ago: CHECK
716 days ago:CHECK
717 days ago: CHECK
717 days 22 h ago: (The.Engagement.2006.PROPER.DVDRip.XviD-VoMiT): CHECK
719 days ago(the.samurai.hdtv.xvid-fqm): CHECK

And here we go with incompletes, finally:

720 days ago(passage.ws.pdtv.xvid-remax):
Parts checked: 2117
Undownloadable parts: 21
0,99% of the data can't be downloaded!

Suck it up :D

PS i dont say that ALL stuff posted 717 + days ago is available but what i tested was.(some EFnet releases)

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Originally Posted by Hypatia

The.Engagement.2006.PROPER.DVDRip.XviD-VoMiT
the.samurai.hdtv.xvid-fqm

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Well apparently that beats binsearch's retention too.

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binsearch

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Retention is not the problem with binsearch, at least for me.
Unfortunately ive found out that via binsearch one cant find posts which can be found using others nzb index sites within retention range.
Mostly HBO TV series.I suspect take down requests.

As for these tests i made i used superseach to create nzbs.

And i repeat once more its not 100% guarantee that everything beyond 717 days can be downloaded. Same as i guess with all other newsproviders.

Hypatia: Are you using search in the other groups?

The extra retention on giganews costs about $2 per day per month.. interesting. ;)

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Are you using search in the other groups?

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Yep. Both usual search and "in the other groups".

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The extra retention on giganews costs about $2 per day per month

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:))

Well, these 5-6 days dont count for me that much so im not gonna renew my subscription to giga this time since Astraweb as it seems has managed to deal with their completion issues they had(back then i renewed my giga subscription). If they fuck up again ill just switch back to giga )

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Originally Posted by Hypatia

717 days 22 h ago: (The.Engagement.2006.PROPER.DVDRip.XviD-VoMiT): CHECK
719 days ago(the.samurai.hdtv.xvid-fqm): CHECK

And here we go with incompletes, finally:

720 days ago(passage.ws.pdtv.xvid-remax)

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I can't find those on any usenet search sites, AW & Giganews have better retention than Binsearch & co ?