many downloads incomplete - astranews

[mjmacky]

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!)

Yeah I've tried all 3 AW variants, with no resounding success. I also can't really watch them that closely, as they can take up to 10 hours to finish 1 post. I wish I could FTP these things somewhere (with better upload) that will then get posted to usenet. There's no equivalent to a seedbox (temporary) on usenet.

[Beck38]

It takes me upwards of 3 days to post a 'collection'... 10 hours would be a breeze. Following the posing via a standard newsreader is easy, double-checking via Binsearch and others I can do from a smart(er) phone that has good web access.

If you have a hosting company near to you (I have one some 10 miles distant) you can set up a remote controlled server that has access to super-fast internet at very low rates (>$10/month; but you have to be really serious to do that. I'm still thinking about fiber, which is in my area, but I'd have to move and right now it isn't worth it.

Meanwhile, as long as things seem to be working okay, I guess I'm just lucky.

[Hypatia]

i wish i could help with ur problem.. but once i switched from camel powerpost to jbinup i havent had problems while uploading stuff via AW.
I set checking to 5 min interval.
Uploaded about 400Gb in the last 30 days. All seem to be OK.

Also you should take into account that those index sites they basically download headers, then delete them after a certain period of time has passed
When AW had problems with headers most of my uploads were shown as incomplete on almost all index sites that have a header feed from AW. yet the files were there complete. supersearch still shows some of my uplaods incomplete when in reality theya re all there.

[mjmacky]

Well mine have all shown to be par2 repairable, but it's just kind of annoying that they all have to be repaired. How many connections are each of you using in jbinup?

[Hypatia]

i set 20 connections. For some reason i need much more connections to achieve normal speed when uploading unlike when downloading

SP i really wish someone made alternative to jbinup not using Java.. i dont like java software for various reasons

[mjmacky]

Wow, maybe I should use more, I limited mine to 2 to reduce number of errors

[Beck38]

I did a whole lotta testing at first... But found that I easily swamped Astraweb/US at 8 connections with my current pipe (5Mb/s). I could probably cut that down to 4 but found that things ran 'smoother' at 8 (to my eyes). But then again, I use a VPN so that enters the 'mix' as well, and the VPN/router and circuit, with my ISP throughput, seems to find that 'sweet' point at that 8.

Unless and until I get a better 'pipe', then I'll have to look at some h/w upgrades (VPN router needs to get faster), and that is all bucks, and since the fiber folks have called a halt to any further expansion toward my current location (2-3 miles down the road), it'll be another year at least before that (and unless the cableco drops their rates or ramps up their speeds, which may happen according to DSLReports).

[Crack0saurus]

This thread doesn't surprise me.

Lately i've had lots of incomplete files (most times too much for repair) in a.b.hdtv.french with french 720p/1080p bluray rips between 100 and 300 days.
Thought it was dmca-like demands at first but several days later tried to download again and it was much better.

Still have some issues with some posts from around 110 days but i guess i'll ty again later. Just glad to see it's a technical issue and not compliance with some BS organization.

[Beck38]

I looked back at my records, and despite posting virtually every hour/day during that time frame, saw absolutely nothing wrong at the time.

In a couple hours I'll have a window to d/l a couple things that I posted, and know that they were 100% both on Astra and on the other servers I monitor. If they are loosing things on their drive plant, and both plants at the same time. then there's real questions. I already verified that some things that were posted to Astra (not by me), are missing huge chunks, but were propagated just fine out to other servers, which is weird to begin with.

Well, this didn't take long, but...

Okay, VERY interesting.... A Posting I know to be 100% on both the US and EU server, during the period we are talking about (around the first week of April, 2011), are both semi-hosed.

What is particularly weird, is that both files have errors is pretty much EXACTLY the same spots. Now, since I know that both were 100% when posted, the possibility that both server plants, separated by some 8000 miles, would go off the rails in pretty much the same way.... means a couple of things (maybe).

Astraweb could be doing what I suggested, cross-checking the two plants against each other at whatever intervals. And one of those plants in experiencing drive errors, and the cross-checking routine isn't checking the files (par or whatever) before 'updating' the other plant. So error's 'proliferate', which is exactly what one DOESN'T want happening. The possibility that both plants would suffer pretty much the same disc error's, affecting the same files, is astronomical.

Either that, or someone they are peering with is overwriting GOOD files with BAD, and their s/w is allowing that to happen (VERY BAD). I'll bet that's what happened, and if they don't fix their s/w, it'll happen again. Or it already has, except it's a small error or folks simply haven't noticed it yet.

[loubarlow]

Well it's not getting any better is it? Nigh on a week and still I can barely download anything over 100 days old.