many downloads incomplete - astranews

[ThoR52]

Same problem as the OP here. I've tried both EU and US servers, and it doesn't change anything, i'm still missing parts while the post appears to be complete.

[mysticbertie]

Use all 3 servers they give out and spread your connections across all of them equally. I do this in Newsbin Pro and don't have any issues completing articles. Also your AV could screw up things too so make sure your news client has full access.

I DONT KNOW HOW THIS IS DONE IM USING NEWSLEECHER

oops caps off sorreeeee

im using eset security so it sets up everything automatically

[sandman_1]

I DONT KNOW HOW THIS IS DONE IM USING NEWSLEECHER

You can read can't you? Amazing what you can find going to their website and actually searching it.

Found this in two seconds, http://www.newsleecher.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17974

• Click on the Manager page tab
• To add a new server, click on the Add button.

Post a link to one of the files you can't get/complete and I will see if I have the same issue with it.

[mysticbertie]

You can read can't you? Amazing what you can find going to their website and actually searching it.

Found this in two seconds, http://www.newsleecher.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17974

• Click on the Manager page tab
• To add a new server, click on the Add button.

Post a link to one of the files you can't get/complete and I will see if I have the same issue with it.

sarcastic báwbág i was away searching it, if you have issues helping people then please refrain from doing so

i had to delete this as it was incomplete but i cant remember what specific files were missing blocks.

http://www.binsearch.info/?b=am.2010...tor%29&max=250

[sandman_1]

sarcastic báwbág i was away searching it, if you have issues helping people then please refrain from doing so

I guess it was a bit harsh. However I was able to find the information on their site quite easy. I will try that file at the link you posted and see how it works out.

Noun
bawbag (plural bawbags)
(vulgar, slang, pejorative) scrotum.

Hmm, how colorful.

ok downloaded it. It had parts missing in the rars and even pars but Newsbin Pro was able to repair it. Binsearch said all parts available so definitely parts missing on Astra's servers.

[mysticbertie]

sarcastic báwbág i was away searching it, if you have issues helping people then please refrain from doing so

I guess it was a bit harsh. However I was able to find the information on their site quite easy. I will try that file at the link you posted and see how it works out.

Noun
bawbag (plural bawbags)
(vulgar, slang, pejorative) scrotum.

Hmm, how colorful.

ok downloaded it. It had parts missing in the rars and even pars but Newsbin Pro was able to repair it. Binsearch said all parts available so definitely parts missing on Astra's servers.

my you can be helpful when you try lol

the term bawbag is used widely in these parts, appropiate when someone is harsh

thanks for checking, just confirms the problem lies with astraweb, i have added the servers eu ist us 2nd and general 3rd, i will monitor it over the coming week and see if its any better.

oh and thanks

[mjmacky]

For specifics, try this:
https://filesharingtalk.com/nzbs/tv/x...TV-x264-ORENJI
or this:
https://filesharingtalk.com/nzbs/tv/w...DD5.1-H.264-TB

It definitely seems related to time period

This is the first time I've ever been unable to grab something using Astraweb

[Beck38]

Did a little checking, as far as one can 'out on the edges' so to speak.

First, the upload was 100%, as it was to Astraweb/eu, and the propagation was 100% out to the peers. Okay, the non-Astra peers, as both the Astra/EU and US are missing more that a fair enough parts to deep six the thing, even though the Pars should have been acceptable at ~10% as well.

But I did notice that the posting was to two newsgroups (a.b.tv, a.b.hdtv), and the posting was via some program called 'newsmangler 0.02', which did raise some eyebrows a bit, particularly as the '.02' hasn't been worked on since (from what I can find out) some 10+ months ago.

But then again, I don't trust anything but JBinup anymore. And that only as far as checking the outgoing headers from Astraweb...!

[mjmacky]

Did a little checking, as far as one can 'out on the edges' so to speak.

First, the upload was 100%, as it was to Astraweb/eu, and the propagation was 100% out to the peers. Okay, the non-Astra peers, as both the Astra/EU and US are missing more that a fair enough parts to deep six the thing, even though the Pars should have been acceptable at ~10% as well.

But I did notice that the posting was to two newsgroups (a.b.tv, a.b.hdtv), and the posting was via some program called 'newsmangler 0.02', which did raise some eyebrows a bit, particularly as the '.02' hasn't been worked on since (from what I can find out) some 10+ months ago.

But then again, I don't trust anything but JBinup anymore. And that only as far as checking the outgoing headers from Astraweb...!

Did you see the ones I mentioned, the collections being hosted here?

I remember saying I was happy with jbinup, but everything I've posted since I started using it always ends up missing some parts and the header check never catches it. I've tried reposting, but then everything gets kinda funked up. So jbinup has left me a bit wanting. I've just stopped posting altogether cause I've had it with incomplete uploads and slow upload and connection dropping. I had already uninstalled CPP and don't feel like setting it up again, so I'm just kinda stuck.

[Beck38]

Yes, that's what I did the checking on, those two files you listed.

I've had next to zero problems with JBinup over the past 10+ months, over 4.2TB transferred through Astraweb/US, with only minor wobbles (fairly quickly auto-fixed), with about as zero problems with propagation (a few weeks back Giganews was the most major off-track problems I've seen all year, and it 'eventually' fixed itself over about a week).

The posting to two newsgroups is what really caught my eye, doing so has really not been necessary for close to ten years now, since the server plants no longer allocate space by newsgroup.

If JBinup is set up to check the server you're posting to (it can be set up to check propagation to another server), and reports things are 100% but upon checking headers you find either the posting server or the propagation is skipping (random parts unaccounted for) or fading (huge chunks of parts over a fair amount of time), then something is going off the tracks somewhere at the posting server, since it has reported to JBinup that things are '100%'.

I'd be looking for a different server. Maybe I just lucked out with Astraweb/US. 'Internet hop wise' it's just very close to me (although some 500+ miles away), all the other server plants in the US are on the opposite (east) coast and are 10-15 hops (and large delays at 3000+ miles) away.

But while posting I watch these things like a hawk... Then again, it's more of an 'industrial process' to me and not an occasional thing. Like I said, I'd be looking for another posting server (knock on wood that Astra?US keeping running good!)