Giganews is ****'ing up Usenet

Hypatia said:
gee, smart boy, uh?

Ive been using using usenet more than 10 years

Pars wont help you in many cases when propagation of uploaded posts is severely fucked up and u ahve to wait for quite a long time for it to become completed.
Every day for a certain period of time starting at a certain hour astrawebs propagation is fucked up influencing everyone

just s small hint in the direction of "euro provider" from giganews. :D

yeah, $11 a month! Come and get some piece of sweet astraweb ass, dogs!
Now we have an army of $11 lemmings screwing things up for all usenet
since astraweb seems not to have enough dough coming of ur credit cards and paypal accounts to fix the issue . =)))

Thats ur cheap usenet access.
HERE FINALLY COMES THE DAY WE ALL PAY, M!THERF!CKERS! LOL
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Gotta love it when crazy people rant.
 
My god it's the end of the internet!!!!

Common RAB, it happens like once every 6 moths and people get the panies in a bunch, chill the fuck out.
 
im moving on from giganews (supernews to be specific)

it seems every other post i download (a.b.x264, teevee, and moovie) needs major repairs.

tommorow i'll be moving to readnews. (usenetnow).
 
Beck38 said:
This has gotten so out of hand the last few days, that the tsunami of crud has begun to affect just about every news-server on the planet.

There have been some who were saying that things were 'settling down' on Giganews after a few hours, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I did some pretty detailed analysis of headers (or lack thereof) on several high and low volume newsgroups on their server in the last couple of days...

And it's so hosed, it isn't funny anymore. :wacko:

Did all of their senior people take an extended post-labor day holiday, or what?!?

This is rapidly becoming a major 'gap' in usenet retention, that may exist as a 'sink hole' for months, just like the 'gaps' back circa late 2008 when several plants were first ramping up major retention pushes.

And yes, it's affecting the major nzb folks like binsearch, nzbindex, newzleecher et. al.

WHAT A MESS!
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"This has gotten so out of hand the last few days..."

"...things were 'settling down' on Giganews after a few hours"

"This is rapidly becoming a major 'gap' in usenet retention..."

"it's affecting the major nzb folks..."

What are you talking about? :unsure:

I probably downloaded 100+GB of stuff in the past 3 days; all movies and TV shows of things I'm trying to catch up on. The only thing that had missing files was one of the movies, but all the PARs were there so it repaired just fine.
 
ericab said:
im moving on from giganews (supernews to be specific)

it seems every other post i download (a.b.x264, teevee, and moovie) needs major repairs.

tommorow i'll be moving to readnews. (usenetnow).
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I think usenetnow/readnews are backended by giganews aren't they?
 
i might have been a bit expressive but there is nothing crazy about the situation.

Another todays example- avatar 3d jiggly 720p is totally fucked up. More than 1 h passed since the upload and it is still incomplete beyond repair.(17%)



Its astraweb who is LOling at u lot atm :D
but some are too stupid and hung up about all this "astraweb rules" shite to realize that :)

cheap $11 bastards lol
 
I don't know why you have so much trouble when others don't.

taaj720prar.png
 
SonsOfLiberty said:
My god it's the end of the internet!!!!

Common RAB, it happens like once every 6 moths and people get the panies in a bunch, chill the fuck out.
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After some of the big problems when the server plants started aggressively expanding/upgrading in the fall of 2008, I thought that these folks would be watching things a bit closer. Apparently, I was wrong.

Too many folks 'downstream' rely too heavily on GN, period. Yep, maybe Astra is next 'in line' to screw the pooch. But if I, sitting thousands of miles (and a dozen or more 'hops') from their plant can see their train starting to go off the tracks, and their staff, sitting right next to it can't, it shows problems with their staffing/engineering.
 
gee lol it was reposted.im talking about EFNET RELEASE OF AVATAR
i tested with both giganews and newshosting.it was totally screwed up. the poster even had to repost it
I DONT HAVE TROUBLES.ASTRAWEB HAS WITH PROPAGATION.
and its a FACT.Deal with it
 
Skiz said:
What are you talking about? :unsure:
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All the message boards are clogged with screaming, you must be using, or d/l'ing, things from beyond the last few days (which aren't affected). Once you start trying to get things posted in the last 100hrs or thereabouts, you'll hit the gaps.

Just an update: I appears that Giganews has repaired their operation, and gotten some (all, who can tell) of their articles back on line.

Scuttlebutt is that they got hit by some nasty malware. As I noted on another thread, it's been really rolling in the last week plus or so, and anyone who doesn't run some serious blocking/anti-virus program, and does lots of browsing, is headed for disaster, as lots of web sites are getting hit (and don't keep THEIR systems anti-stuff 'up to snuff').
 
Beck38 said:
All the message boards are clogged with screaming, you must be using, or d/l'ing, things from beyond the last few days (which aren't affected). Once you start trying to get things posted in the last 100hrs or thereabouts, you'll hit the gaps.

Just an update: I appears that Giganews has repaired their operation, and gotten some (all, who can tell) of their articles back on line.

Scuttlebutt is that they got hit by some nasty malware. As I noted on another thread, it's been really rolling in the last week plus or so, and anyone who doesn't run some serious blocking/anti-virus program, and does lots of browsing, is headed for disaster, as lots of web sites are getting hit (and don't keep THEIR systems anti-stuff 'up to snuff').
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I don't even use an anti-virus. :lol:
 
So you pay for Giganews, Newshosting, and Astraweb at the very least? :blink:

WTF are you going on about? I literally cannot remember the last time I was unable to successfully grab something with Giganews. My success rate for all intents and purposes is 100%. Every NZB that I download, completes. Every single time. 1 hour old? Completes. 1 day old? Completes. 1 month old? Completes.

Tell us something specific that you can't download with Giganews due to DMCA, or whatever the fuck it is you're incoherently ranting about.
 
I'm fairly sure these providers knew that there were problems. Just because on the surface they seem to "act dumb" doesn't mean they aren't furiously working behind the scenes to fix things. One thing I've noticed is that the bigger any company gets, the less likely they are going to be open and honest about their problems - whether to the company's staff/support or to the public. Maybe this is in part because big companies tend to be run more by public-relations, accounting, and legal-types, rather than by simple tech geeks.

A few years ago, when they were still small companies, Astraweb, Easynews, and Newshosting would report on their server log page every little everyday problem they encountered - whether it affected end-users or not. Not so today.
But then Giganews, for years the biggest company in the business, has always been more tight-lipped about ongoing server issues than most other providers.

I rather miss the old days, when USPs would post a virtual diary of everything they did each day and all the problems they fixed. Now whenever something goes wrong, it seems they pray that no one will ever notice, and only after enough people complain (sometimes many weeks after) do they ever publicly admit that anything went wrong.

For example, in late 2008 it took Giganews about a month or more before they addressed their problems (and they still never corrected their web page that overstated retention by 50 days) and in 2008-2009 it took about 5 months of daily complaints and long-term customers leaving before Easynews finally put out a statement halfway-admitting what everyone already knew: that their system was completely screwed up.
 
Skiz said:
WTF are you going on about? I literally cannot remember the last time I was unable to successfully grab something with Giganews. My success rate for all intents and purposes is 100%. Every NZB that I download, completes. Every single time. 1 hour old? Completes. 1 day old? Completes. 1 month old? Completes.

Tell us something specific that you can't download with Giganews due to DMCA, or whatever the fuck it is you're incoherently ranting about.
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In one of my earlier posts:

http://filesharingtalk.com/threads/...-Please-Read?p=3510987&viewfull=1#post3510987

I listed 17 examples of files that could not be downloaded on Giganews -- an entire season of TV shows -- and this was just a single HBO TV series I picked as an example.

I don't understand why you keep making the claim that Giganews does not have any unrepairable files, when many other people have reported numerous instances of this problem, particularly with pay-TV shows.
 
Beck38 said:
All the message boards are clogged with screaming, you must be using, or d/l'ing, things from beyond the last few days (which aren't affected). Once you start trying to get things posted in the last 100hrs or thereabouts, you'll hit the gaps.
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I only download new stuff for the most part. All of the TV shows were downloaded via RSS so they were brand spankin' new, and the movies were ALL less than 100 hours old. :idunno:
 
Actually dont blame all giganews. Astraweb is working not so good recently as well(with headers).
You see them as complete in a newsreader but when u actually download them u get lots of "not found on server".
Astraweb has started to process uploaded data quite slow..
 
Astrawebs is again fucking up propagation of posts\\\ in ab erotica.posted 18 min ago and is still not completed. just tried with giganews and newshosting. the same thing
. Thats the problem with astra..One moment its OK another one its fucked.. this is really getting to me.. frigging efnet should get themselves cheap giganews block accounts for posting since astra seems not to care about fixing their shit...


PS Interesting.. articles progagation between astraweb and highwinds is better in these fucked up hours than between giganews and astraweb
 
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