Slow and inconsistent speeds with Astraweb

Ahh, thank you guys! And mesa thanks so much for looking into that - shame that it's corrupt! Is it easy enough to set it to grab corrupt blocks from elsewhere? Is it possible that the source files are corrupt too? Tempted just to resort to torrents for stuff like this you think?

Thanks again
 
Thanks dude - the 200 days retention could be a big issue I guess, is it common to download something older than 200 days? I guess so, otherwise Astra would offer it :( May have to pay the extra and not use Hitnews then, d'oh.

I must say quickly that since using Alt.Binz I haven't had a single problem! IT was Grabit that was the problem it seems, not Astraweb.

Alt.Binz is amazing though, so much better so I'm glad it works okay.

Thanks dude - the 200 days retention could be a big issue I guess, is it common to download something older than 200 days? I guess so, otherwise Astra would offer it :( May have to pay the extra and not use Hitnews then, d'oh.

I must say quickly that since using Alt.Binz I haven't had a single problem! IT was Grabit that was the problem it seems, not Astraweb.

Alt.Binz is amazing though, so much better so I'm glad it works okay.
 
Thanks guys, I'm going to be honest the slow and inconsistent speeds were bad enough but the fact I've lost 5GB of data now is pretty much the final straw for me.

It's sad but I'm going back to torrents now :( Will have to re-download that 5GB thing again too it seems... 12 hours later...
 
Yes you are going to very often be downloading stuff much older then 200 days if you use a search site like nzbindex.

Id say around half the stuff I grab is over 200 days old.
 
Not incomplete in Supersearch...here's a NZB that complete see if it downloads...attached is the NZB.

Torrents serve there purpose, but I would never turn to torrent for anything anymore, if I can't find one thing I'll hit a free DDL site and upload it back to Usenet.

But a much simpler, simpler, solution would be to join EFNET iRC (any random server) and then join #alt.binaries.teevee and then once in do !help and learn how to request and request that episode or whatever your looking for TV wise.
 
Ah okay, thanks dude - I'll stick with Astra then!

Still having huge problems with my downloads though. Got something here for example, needs another 18 blocks it says, and Alt.Binz wouldn't automatically extract it like some of the others.

Is there anyway either in Quickpar or Alt.binz to fix them? I notice a lot have rar.1 on the end, and are red in Alt.binz...
 
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