Is Astraweb better than Tweak/Bucket combined?

[bfnewman71]

It's getting quite spotty. Worth a shot i guess.

[Gribley]

Astra is sucking of late. US servers are better than EU still.

However they are not as "pro-active" on take-downs as they used to be but that is clearly still an issue for any provider. Speeds have also dropped from the usual 65mpbs (8/MB) as well but I am not really in that much of a rush


I am going to stay with my unlim $96/year account for now, I have fill account and it doesn`t get hit much,

[lanky221]

Agree, Astraweb has got pretty bad last 3-4 weeks really quick takedowns have started again!
Was the reason i left in the first place came back about 8 months ago and was all good, till recently, won't be renewing when my 2 month sub is up!
Which is very soon

[stubby777]

I have astra for speed and use a tweak block account to fill the gaps. Works well, but the tweak block account is getting used up faster and faster of late... I can max out astra over SSL at 110mbps, where on tweak it maxes out at about 28mbps here in Canada.

[kernowkid75]

Agree with pretty much everyone else - tweak was my fallback from astra, but is picking up more than its fair share of Tue slack at the moment. Don't intend to renew next month with astra unless something changes dramatically ...

*the* slack, even ...

[cardboardbox]

Astra's been really good for me, very fast, few take downs that I've seen. I'm using blocknews as a fill server but you'd think with all the stuff I've grabbed that is over a day old that it would already be gone from blocknews and thus unable to fill in what Astra is missing.

[MrBogus]

Went back to astra, tweak sucks big time now. Time will tell if this was a good move or not.

[cardboardbox]

Went back to astra, tweak sucks big time now. Time will tell if this was a good move or not.

I guess Tweak finally was completely integrated into highwinds. For a long time it was still doing fine even after they were bought out by HW.

[gloster]

Currently using bucket and find the speed superior to tweak, however take downs are fast have seen stuff go within about 6 hours given the US / UK time differences for the previous evening television. Haven't had any issues with completion though and its mainly TV show that causes a problem.

That said I did just buy a whole years subscription with them as it averaged out at just over £2 per month for unlimited 40 meg. Will probably get a block account with another provider just to fill the holes.