'Zero Day' Hasn't Budged, Probably won't for 'Forever'

[Hypatia]

Header check is possible with this server

- ON

Use server for header check

- ON

PS i wonder why do u prefer uploading via SSl server.. it cant "save" you or anything.. well. except for from ISP shaping=)


PPS ive just had "header checking" fixing my upload. for some reason te last scene got uploaded not completely as it happens with astraweb sometimes and JbinUP automaticall did header checks and reuploaded the parts that were missing.. it took some time, but now my upload is 100% complete, i love it=)

[zot]

@Hypatia

Since you tested several binary posting clients, and you also use Usenet Explorer, what's your opinion of Usenet Explorer's posting ability compared to Jbinup and other posting clients?

From Usenet Explorer's site:

Free poster

The program contains free text/binary poster, also related functionality like newsgroup list related
is free. The reason for including it as a free tool is existing widely used poster 'powerpost' is
terrible by introducing options that may puzzle text newsreaders by forming invalid subjects and
arbitrary placing references which isn't used by binary downloaders anyway and has backlog of all
kinds of problems.

The poster can post par2 sets, nzb and sfv files, for posting par2 it seamlessly uses par2 command
line client.

Other features are reposting segments/attachments, retrying posts reposting only failed segments,
post task persistency between sessions, simultaneously posting several posts each to its own server
(but still not suitable for sending spam), remembering prior posts etc.

See the post menu and edit menu->properties->posts for related settings.

It seems there are no specific "header check" settings to adjust, but I assume this may be set to a built-in default value. I'm not sure exactly what all of UE's settings do; the documentation is vague and there appears not to be a lot of discussion about Usenet Explorer.

So should I just chalk it up as having Astraweb glitches? When I review it, the SSL connections gave me MANY more errors than the non SSL connections

It's not just Astraweb. Also HW and RN - and probably all others. SSL can be very demanding of having a rock-solid connection - or it craps out. At least that's been my experience. That leads to a dilemma I often find myself in when on a shaky public Wi-FI connection. Use SSL - and risk posting errors. Don't use SSL - and risk having my password harvested (the lesser evil since I use a nearly-depleted block for posting).

there are some parts being reported by NZBIndex and binsearch as OK, but when I DL them and par2 check, there are missing parts not being reported by the indexers.

Could it possibly be that the binary attachment is missing from the post but everything else is there?

I wonder if a mal-formed post will get recognized by some servers but not by others?

[mjmacky]

I didn't come across anything before regarding Astraweb and header checking with Jbinup, so thanks for the clue about that. I will give up on SSL, I was just trying it out (and only for part of the post). It's not like I was using SSL with CPP before, so no big difference there if I ignore it.

Next time around with Jbinup I'll see if my post gets raped or not. I'd also like to hear personal feedback on UE.

[Hypatia]

what's your opinion of Usenet Explorer's posting ability compared to Jbinup and other posting clients?

ive never used it.

I prefer to use software that is designed solely to posting stuff.

but now that you've mentioned it i might give it a try someday =)

On a side note UE is an awsome newsreader=) a bit confusing at first but..=)

PS ive just tried posting via UE and my speed is slow.. maybe im doing something wrong dunno)

[zot]

In Usenet Explorer, it helps to create another account just for posting, adjusting the number of connections to optimize the upload rather than the download speed, disable SSL, etc. (I upload with a lot fewer connections than I download with)

UE is the only newsreader I know of that was designed for posting binary file sets (although it indeed lacks some of the 'tweaking' settings found on other, dedicated posting clients). All the other newsreaders are really only capable of posting single-file attachments, so for those users a dedicated poster would be essential for uploading big files.

[mjmacky]

JBinup... Everything seemed to go more smoothly this time, and the header check works out just fine. There is a missing part that it's not recognizing, but it's on a repair volume so I just don't care. However, I was dealing with 1 split file rather than a bunch of split files, so it's hard to gauge how much my experience has improved, I'll keep testing it.

[Hypatia]

zot i tried everything i could. i still cant get more than 2.5-2.8MB uploading via UE ..

[zot]

Hypatia - I can only dream of getting a 2.5 megabit upload speed.

With any posting client, there's obviously inherent upload speed limits. For instance, the files can only be yenc-encoded as fast as the computer (and the software code's efficiency) will allow.

UE is said to download faster now for users with ultra-high speed connections since it now processes articles completely in memory rather than writing them to disk like it did before. Perhaps the same sort of 'streamlining' revamp might be needed on the upload side of the software. Or maybe it's the 'handshaking' with that particular server that's causing the bottleneck.

I think that's a problem the developer might want to know about, as it's possible UE may never even have been tested on such high upload speeds.

[Beck38]

For those beating on JBinUP, trying to get it to work or work better, last evening (my time, around 13+ hours ago from the date on this message), I glanced at my upload machine before hitting the sheets and instantly noticed that Mr. Astraweb was seriously trying to veer off the rails (either that or the something in the path, of course), where JBinUp was reporting tons of connection errors, timeouts, you name it, to the point where the rar parts (fairly large, though) had about a half dozen of them 'awaiting verification'.

I gritted my teeth and watched for a bit; it took a good half-hour plus but eventually all the rar parts that hadn't been verified did get the 'magic checkmark', and the errors reported by JBinUp settled down; and in checking both Astraweb and the propagation out to other servers, all was good an hour later.

Pretty good. That kind of 'veering' would have nailed the PowerPost types, and created what I call a 'fade' (huge parts simply not received, and therefore not propagated).

[Hypatia]

Beck38
i had exactly the same problem on Astraweb ,i guess, at approximately the same time period while uploading 24Gb release.
speed was very inconsistent, few first episodes got screwed up severely, but when i got back from work everything was posted OK and the ones that got screwed up too.
Ive decided to increase header check interval to 240 sec just to give enough time to propagate..

That kind of 'veering' would have nailed the PowerPost types,

yeah, i had this problem with camelpost.
at some point i even considered getting myself $5 giganews account just for uploading( you can upload unlimited ammounts and no incoming traffic at all, i tried it once.)