ThunderNews throttling?

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Originally Posted by Malcontent

In my experience from reading various forums, if Astraweb is your primary provider then Blocknews.net is the best choice for a backup server. Blocknews has better completion then Highwinds.

Even Astraweb on occasion needs a backup server. No single usenet provider is 100% perfect. I've haven't found a perfect one yet.

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Biggest problem with Blocknews/UsenetNow is that their speed is slow as snails on old files - really annoying but not an issue for everyone. @Malcontent I agree totally, no one provider has all the trimmings, you really have to find a combo that works for you. Most of time that combo involves more than one provider.

I really don't see what the issue is when it comes to DMCA takedowns for Highwinds... I've only stumbled upon one set of files that seems to be DMCAed on Highwinds (Newsdemon), and that's GTA4 + GTA:ELC...

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Originally Posted by RIFKinator

I really don't see what the issue is when it comes to DMCA takedowns for Highwinds... I've only stumbled upon one set of files that seems to be DMCAed on Highwinds (Newsdemon), and that's GTA4 + GTA:ELC...

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If you have no interest in targeted content (your not trying to download it) or are downloading it almost immediately after being posted then YOU wouldn't have an issue. For those that regularly download HBO, ect. it can be an issue because it gets hit with DMCA within hours/day of being posted. Trying to download older HBO posts is next to impossible without a backup server.

I have no problems with the standard Astraweb + Blocknews combo. I've used less than 30MB out of 200GB.