Astraweb Down 'Across the Board'

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Originally Posted by Beck38

Again, slow-downs do occur, for no reason whatsoever, like today, where the throughput is averaging around 100Kb/s on a 20Mb/s+ link (and this going on for around 2-3 hours now). Downright pathetic.

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It seems like AW is continuously having a hard time meeting bandwidth demands, must be why they're offering capped bandwidth subscriptions, to convert some of their userbase to managed throughput.

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100-300 day range today,

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its not 100-300

its 200+-350+

try for instance this
or this (~9% data unavailable)


Go to nzbindex, and set filter to 220 days-250 days+ efnet for instance try several 2+Gb releases.

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, that those issuing those takedowns see Astra, compared to Giga, as 'second-ran' and therefore aren't on their top 'hit list'.

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giganews and others made it pretty easy for mafia to deal with dmca letters.. they have special email address embedded in messages(abuse), they have forms to fill on their site. AW doesnt have it

I just dumped Astraweb because of incompletes. They seem to have gaps in very specific time frames; i.e., 320-350 day range. They know about it, but they don't seem too concerned about their reputation as far as I can tell from the the Helpdesk.

Welp, no matter who you go with, you'll need a backup server.

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Originally Posted by cola

Welp, no matter who you go with, you'll need a backup server.

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Amen. Wise words from a wise fellow.

So if I switch astraweb to a block backup server, who should I switch to for primary? I don't really want to pay much more than I do for astraweb...

I'd keep astraweb as your primary and use someone like blocknews as the backup.

For over a year, I've used Astraweb without a backup server. Call it laziness, but it has yet to bite me in the ass.

220-350 days range- it will bite you =))

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Originally Posted by mjmacky

For over a year, I've used Astraweb without a backup server. Call it laziness, but it has yet to bite me in the ass.

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Same here, except I have been with Astraweb for years. I just haven't had a need to get a block account. And for the date range Hypatia talks about, XSUsenet's free account can serve as a back up to those date ranges. It is well within their retention.