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I just signed up for Astraweb $11, but I am quite disappointed, I downloaded a few blurays, and all of them were incomplete. Not too bad, each only has a few article missing 1 or 2 block. Problem is repairing one of those takes like 20 minutes. Since I get 6 MB/s free school bandwidth so sitting there 20 minutes repairing it is really unproductive.
Does anyone has the same problem or that's just me?
I have not had any issues with astraweb, I have a lot of friends also using it and have not complained either.
It might be group specific, especially if it is on the edge of retention. More details are needed to ascertain the issue. I have had similar problems in a.b.dvdr when it is at the fringe of retention but also when it is sloppily reposted by someone even if it is well within the retention, at least it seems.
i hardly have to repair anything with astraweb...i just got something at 213 days and no repair needed...also when there is only a few blocks missing it never takes more than 7min to repair on my old crappy lappy so i dont know why its taking you 20min
never had a problem the article you are trying to download is just too old
Oh it takes time to repair and especially extract big files.
It's a weird situation when the download is faster than repair/unrarring. (I'm on a 100 mbit line).
For me astraweb gives me occasionally incompletes. Still happy with Astraweb though.
o missed that it was blurays...so yea a few incompletes is going to take a while...any 4.7gb's i dl never take more than 5-7 min to repair
thats why there par files...theres going to be incompletes on any server every now and then
no, no problems here
i have downloaded a few 40 GB bluerays and never had any problem. I never download anything less than x264 HD which are around 4-10 GB... had one repair, problem was the newzleechers search didn't include the right files... i'm on 1000mbit (dn)/100mbit (up) so if there would be incompletes i would be angry ;) Using sabnzbd...
Lately I have to repair or redownload 5-6 files of 80-90 files. But I don't think it's Easynews or Straweb because if I redownload the file it checks out ok. I think it's my HDD actually or perhaps my ISP. This actually started happening like 3 months ago.
So yeah I have the same problem as the OP. I still have to figure out what causes some files to get corrupted. I really think it's eaither my HDD or my ISP. But this also happens if I download to my external USB drive.
Also I have got corrupted files downloading with IDM from rapidshare or even through Easynews web interface so really I think my ISP is probably the cause. Or maybe just my modem. However I get nice speeds and I the last time I called my ISP my modem levels were perfect. I get 1.7-2 megabytes per second and yes it's faster to redownload the files than it's to repair but sometimes it takes 2-3 tries to get the file to check out ok. I even got a couple of corrupted files using bittorrent so that's what I thought it was my HDD perhaps. I have updated my NIC drivers and my router is using the latest firmware from Nov, 2008. I guess this is kind of a mystery but now at least I know I'm not the only one having this problem.
I've downloaded maybe 10 xbox 360 games from Astraweb in the last 2 weeks and haven't had any incompletes.
You got a veritable smorgasbord of responses, which is what you should expect when you ask such a question without going into details.
Yes, I have noticed excessive incompletes using Astraweb with a range of ages on the posts. I switched providers in February. NewsHosting, my previous provider, definitely did not have this many incompletes.
OP,
Just put your .rars and some .pars on an external drive to be repaired later if it is slowing you down.
Hmmm, I get incomp's, but it only takes a minute or 2 to repair, I don't even notice it, and it's rarely, I think it's my ISP coupled with using a pirated NewsLeecher :lol:
But I really "really" do think it's good dependent.
I'm getting incomplete as well now.
It's all over the place. usually one or two files that need repair.
I don't think its my computer as I just built this on an i7 920.
I got windows 7 64bit running.
Could be the operating system causing this.
I still have yet to get any. I'm probably not as much of a high traffic users as some of you but I've been downloading daily for 3 weeks or so using astraweb/newsleecher with none.
Well this may had something to do with it, they had a outage on March 21 and before I assume, and remember Astraweb just changed their SSL server too, so make sure to log in and see what the new secure server address is.
March 21, Partial Spool Outage
Resolved
We had a partial spool outage that lasted approximately 30 minutes. During this time you would have seen many "430 article not found" errors or incompletes. Please requeue these and the downloads should come through perfectly fine now.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
I still think my issue is ISP related. Why would I get a corrupted download but after the second or third try it's perfect?
BTW mine are not incomplete because the news client shows the file as complete and it gets it complete to the right size. It simple becomes corrupted. Also the fact that I have got it corrupted using IDM through http and through bittorrent with uTorrent but very rare, only twice I think and through my news clients (it happens a lot)