I'm new to the newsgroup scene but been using torrents and rapidshare for years. For the past three months Ive been using my isp and its capped to 512 kbps with 4 connects. We live in a instant gratification day in age. So like most of us when u see something u want it sooner than later.
So doing some research Ive narrowed it down to Supernews and Astraweb(cost to performance based). If anyone could share with me there past experience with the company's it would be very appreciated.
Supernews = giganews = more mpa takedowns than astraweb.
I guess my next question is do more connections really mean faster dl speeds? Im running a 7mps connection.
So i went with supernews. Thanks for the recommendation c0ld. I was instantly impressed with the speeds im getting. Newsgroups for now on for this guy.
Last edited by jordash; 12-05-2009 at 12:13 AM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost
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Originally Posted by jordash
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c0ld's point was, you should go with astraweb NOT supernews.
as for connections please see this;
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1885
Last edited by ericab; 12-05-2009 at 02:36 AM.
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I had an argument with the shills from giganews over on slyck once, after their 'huge' announcement of upgrading to 50 connections. For most people, anything over 10 is overkill. The more threads you have, the more CPU and hard-disk resources you are going to consume to download the same articles. There are very few points on a network that more connections will lead to a higher prioty for your traffic either, because most of the bottlenecks occur when your connection is inside an L2TP tunnel. The only benefit of more connections come when you live in some distant part of a 3rd world country, ie where the number of hops between you and the server is high and the routers on those hops as less than stellar quality.
Oops? Supernews isn't too bad though, it's an easy second imo.So i went with supernews. Thanks for the recommendation c0ld. I was instantly impressed with the speeds im getting. Newsgroups for now on for this guy.
Last edited by c0ld; 12-05-2009 at 11:52 AM.
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So supernews gets stuff taken off but Astraweb doesnt??? I got into supernews this month and I've been very impressed.
Is there any info to back up this statement about takedowns. I thought content was the same for all providers as long as you had binary access.
Last edited by whiteboy; 12-05-2009 at 04:47 PM.
not really, just the occasional comment here and there from ppl on giganews who get 'article not found' errors.
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As said, number of connections, 20 is more than enough. I've used 100Mbit connections that maxed out at 12 connections with Astraweb. I switched from Giganews and have been very happy with them since. The cable connection I use now I use 3 US and 3 Euro SSL connections and I max my connection 100% of the the time.
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So supernews is the same as giganews??
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