Wierd Errror, 'TooSmall' Occuring On Astraweb/US-SSL

[Beck38]

I live in a 'strange' neighborhood, in that it's surrounded on all sides with 'planned' communities with (illegal by federal law) restrictions on things like satellite dishes. The state atty. gen. backs those restrictions; I used to live in one of those before I retired, and I had to 'hide' my dishes behind tall fences and shrubbery, but could have been cited at any time by the property association.

But there is about 5-10 streets in the middle where there are no restrictions, and that's why almost everyone both on my street and several adjacent are filled with folks who like the little city we live in, like the view of the ocean and such, and have a high disgust of cable companies in general. The biggest downfall is no FIOS. All those communities surrounding have it, but not the little pocket we live in. Only Comcast. Of which a fair number (including myself) in our little slice of the city have internet service from. Like we got a 'choice'.

Now that state atty. general that allows these community associations to fine folks for having dishes (R), is running for Governor. You can bet who his biggest money backers are.

[mjmacky]

Oh please don't get me started on crooked association practices, I spent my load not a week ago.

A friend of my once had Fios set up in his apartment. There were three large boxes installed in 3 separate locations, besides his modem/router, I was quite baffled as to what each of their functions were.

[Beck38]

If anyone is still using PowerPost or one of their variants, with the current problems with Astraweb/US, you will be generating a nice little 'bad spot' in your upload, period. Verified. Hopefully, enough pars to correct all of those that get generated every 190m of your upload.

JBinUp 'sees' the bad spot, and corrects it, at least so far that I've been watching this.

[erebos]

If anyone is still using PowerPost or one of their variants, with the current problems with Astraweb/US, you will be generating a nice little 'bad spot' in your upload, period. Verified. Hopefully, enough pars to correct all of those that get generated every 190m of your upload.

JBinUp 'sees' the bad spot, and corrects it, at least so far that I've been watching this.

Dude.. thanks for the experiments...

[mjmacky]

Actually, if a lot of people are using powerpost, we should end up seeing a lot of incompletes over the past week.

[johhny]

astraweb/eu never had any issues for me so far with yenc

[mesaman]

Show me an example of AW or PowerPost upload failure.

[Beck38]

There are no 'failures' with JBinUp, since the program checks the server for completeness and when it finds the 'holes' created by the 'too small' errors it re-uploads the portion that was mangled and the propagation is complete/clean.

However, when using a non-error correcting uploader like PowerPost, the error is not 'cleaned up' and propagates out. PP doesn't generate any log files, and in fact 'pre-generates' the nzb before uploading, unlike JBinUp witch doesn't generate it until the complete files are upload verified. That's the 'magic' of JBinUp and why any errors one ever gets from something uploaded by it is from either bad server storage, bad server propagation, or bad transmission from that server to your system, not bad uploading.

The only way one using PowerPost (or variants) and catching the problem is either by watching the streams as they are uploaded, or by checking the nzb completeness either (or both) at the server you uploaded to or by one 'downstream' servers.

[Beck38]

At appox 0130hrs this morning (some 7+ hours previous to the date/time stamp on this message) the Asutraweb/US plant (or the front-end) took a major dump/reset. JBinUp sailed through it like it usually does, correcting things as it went along. Lots of 'connection resets' and the like.

After that, it appears that there are no more 'too small' errors occurring. It's only been some 7 hours since the 'reset', so it's only had a couple of 190min gaps to 're-appear', but it looks smooth as silk right now. Will of course continue to 'monitor..

More: Did get a message from the folks at Astraweb, they did make some changes and implemented them at that time (some 10+ hours ago now), and it seems to have 'cured' the 'too small' problems plus really smoothed out their operation; haven't even gotten a 'connection reset' message over those 10+ hours, VERY SMOOTH.

Hopefully it will continue this way, will continue to monitor (of course) but it looks really good right now!