many downloads incomplete - astranews

[Beck38]

It would certainly be helpful if Astraweb at least gave a weekly update, and posted general advice on AW's "system" page. It should not be necessary for every single person to (separately) email support to get answers for a common problem.

Which I have told them to do twice now, with no real response. Why more info is on a 3rd party (Newsbin) forum rather than their own is really stupid.

And probably yes, a Blocknew 'filler' would probably last longer with Astraweb than Supernews, but it all depends on what you are grabbing. I used up a significant chunk of a 100GB Blocknews 'block' in the last couple of weeks grabbing some things (successfully) I wanted, but it amounts to a hidden 'tax' on using Astraweb.

But I've run lots of studies on using anything other than Astraweb, and found every time that because of the fact I'm on the west coast of the US, and Astraweb is both very close to me both physically, hop wise, and delay wise, that all the other server plants in the US are clustered generally around Virginia/DC or on the east coast, they are all problematic and would require more additional hoop jumping for me to use on a continual basis.

So I'm stuck. Folks in Europe/Britain don't really understand the size of the US, it's the equivalent of someone in London told to use a server out of Moscow.

[mesaman]

Giganews has a server in Los Angeles.

[cola]

that all the other server plants in the US are clustered generally around Virginia/DC or on the east coast, they are all problematic and would require more additional hoop jumping for me to use on a continual basis.

I'm surprised that doesn't effect your posting here.

[Hypatia]

Theres no way around that, unless you're using a dutch provider.

since when astraweb has gone dutch ?
they dont have dmca problems. they have technical problems lol

[cola]

They're starting to get some, but not as many.

[Hypatia]

id like to see examples =)
so far everything i encountered that is DMCed on giganews\supernews (HBO, console games) is available on AW
Except for the stuff posted during this gap due to technical failure or whatever.

[cola]

Thats part of the problem, since Astraweb has to many problems its hard to know which is due to which.

[Hypatia]

and here i thought i would get something..*sigh*

So..as i suspected its pure speculation

anyways, its not a problem at all.

Its relatively easy to distinguish dmca-ed material from simple incompletes.
Consistency matters, yes. the way dmca is done.

[cola]

Don't worry, I'm tested a bit with astra, giga, and an NL block account. Tested a popular nzb with over 1k grabs of a recent movie, both astra and giganews are missing parts, all near the end of the RARs. All parts available on an NL server. So while I don't have astraweb on record admitting to a DMCA takedown, the evidence is pretty suggestive.

[Hypatia]

So..when i asked you to give me examples. you said it would be problematic...

now you claim you tested this "popular" nzb. maybe you should get your story straight first?

is it really so hard to give me a link to this 'popular nzb"? =)
its like they say seeing is believing, you know.

whats with the people these days i wonder..