missing blocks and different servers

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Originally Posted by padawan

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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Have you tried it with the other servers? The NON-SSL ones?

yeah tried. no luck

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Originally Posted by mesaman

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.

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No not really, I just like to put on my Sherlock Holmes hat sometimes. ...</p>

Since I keep several block accounts (using different backend servers), any incompletes I ever run into can easily be fixed, and simply setting up a newsreader that supports secondary fill servers will mean I'll never even know that incompletes ever happened. :)

From what I've seen, Usenet Explorer is one newsreader that appears to have the best and most advanced fill-server setup, as it lets you prioritize all the servers. Although several other newsreaders have backup-server capability, I don't know of any that let you set up a "backup-to-a-backup", as UE does. For instance, having the US server as 1st priority, letting the EU server be the first backup, and in case the article is incomplete there also, using a block account from another provider as the 3rd (backup) server.

Astraweb has fixed their completion issues.

yep, they did indeed ! nice :D
astraweb 100% recommended by me now :D

I confirm, issues with incompletes seems to have been nicely fixed or well improved!

:lol: people are saying it's a fluke, people are still having issues, here and there, I tested one NZB that I tried the other day that was bad and it was good.....today.

Although many people have told me it depends on the day/time you download, seems some people just deleted what had download (most of the time a couple RARS) and re-loaded the NZB and worked, go figure.

It must have been a top-secret problem...no news about it, or they read forums like "ours" :lol:

http://helpdesk.astraweb.com/index.php?_m=news&_a=view

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Originally Posted by SonsOfLiberty

It must have been a top-secret problem...no news about it, or they read forums like "ours" :lol:

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actually i wrote them a support ticket about my download troubles yesterday and they told me they would look into it :D

astraweb, i'm gladly suprised :fst: