Mine does. I have astraweb access, though capped to a max DL speed of 300KB/s. Not bad, for free.
FileSharingTalker
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Mine does. I have astraweb access, though capped to a max DL speed of 300KB/s. Not bad, for free.
The Lonely Wanderer
remember most of the auto-posters and posters use Astraweb and was having issues last week, incomplete should be fixed for now, just remember the majority use Astra for posting.
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Newzleech seems to be bringing up the rear on getting headers 'filled in', for whatever reason.
Binsearch and others seem to be attacking things pretty pro-active, but that doesn't mean everything is hunky-dory. Lots I was trying to get this last week, went perfect using the posted nzb (on Astra), but there are still major gaps in the nzb's done by the 'auto' folks, and from what I can figure out Giganews is still a bit wacky, in that the headers are actually all there (if one gets them), yet services 'down-stream' from them still have major gaps and such.
LIke I've said before, these nzb generator folks (Newzleech, Beinsearch, etal) need to be serious about being 'fed' my multiple servers. Relying on simply Giganews (or for that matter any other single server, as Astra has had it's fades as well), is asking for trouble.
Slight bit of an update this morning (still a little sleepy so hold on a bit), but in doing some minimal A/B/C on GN/Astra/Usenet-News, GN is still doing some (relativity) minor 'skips' from things posted on either Astra or Usenet-News, but are 100% on both Astra and U-N.
Shows that either the link between GN and the other two is still a bit dodgy, or GN plant is, take your pick. But it is somewhat 'minor', at least in the groups I checked. Doesn't mean that there isn't one out there (figuring it's the GN plant that's still the problem, and not a transmission failure), that's got major problems.
Poster
Thank you for starting this thread, this really does beg the question is Giganews worth the extra cost and perhaps to a slim few it is worth it, but surely that is only the case while their service is working correctly and frankly at Giganews prices my newsreader better not experience so much as a fart from their servers, in fact due to the fact that they are experiencing corrupt headers that should be a clear message for others to run from Giganews and go with any other provider on earth. Do yourself a favor and save some money with any other NSP that is not overpriced and is not delivering corrupted content.
'worth the cost' is one of those infinite questions. I used GN for many many years, with a block account with Astra for fills, and never had much of any problems until around late 2008.
That got me to re-evaluate things, and as a result, took up Astra on their $11 deal and never looked back. But then I started seeing gaps and such on Astra, so got a Usernet-News block account. Still, of course, lower cost that GN.
Now, lots of folks like the VPN deal, but since I already have a much better VPN provider (worldwide), it's a moot issue with me. As long as things don't go seriously 'off the tracks' with Astra (knock on wood), I'm a happy camper. I keep a pretty close eye on all the majors, and this latest veering off the road is the most major screw-up I've seen since 2008... and as of this afternoon, there are still some 'echos' of it going on in Giganews-land (still some gaps, where there are no gaps in any other server I can see).
So, it does, or should, make folks think a bit. I have a dozen or so major 'fades' linked out on Giganews I'll continue to take a look at over the next few days, and see it they are 'repaired' in any way or fashion.
Poster
BT Rep: +6
im moving on from giganews (supernews to be specific)
it seems every other post i download (a.b.x264, teevee, and moovie) needs major repairs.
tommorow i'll be moving to readnews. (usenetnow).
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Poster
I think usenetnow/readnews are backended by giganews aren't they?Originally Posted by ericab
No and you can tell this because there stuff is actually complete! also why so many use blocknews to fill in the gaps and shortcomings of the bigger ones.I think usenetnow/readnews are backended by giganews aren't they?
Poster
Actually dont blame all giganews. Astraweb is working not so good recently as well(with headers).
You see them as complete in a newsreader but when u actually download them u get lots of "not found on server".
Astraweb has started to process uploaded data quite slow..
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