Anybody else here use astraweb for usenet?
 

Anybody else here use astraweb for usenet?

How is it performing?

I'm recently getting only 5kByte/s per connection and want to know if
it is astraweb or my ISP limiting it (I'm with orcon).

Thanks,
Mark

Re: Anybody else here use astraweb for usenet?
 

"Mark C" <mark.c@somewhere.invalid> wrote in message
news:4639c92c$0$3060$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
> Anybody else here use astraweb for usenet?
>
> How is it performing?
>
> I'm recently getting only 5kByte/s per connection and want to know if
> it is astraweb or my ISP limiting it (I'm with orcon).

Why don't you use Orcon's Usenet Server? (news.orcon.net.nz)

Thanks

Re: Anybody else here use astraweb for usenet?
 

On Fri, 4 May 2007 07:18:14 +1200, "Craig Whitmore" <lennon@orcon.net.nz> wrote:

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>"Mark C" <mark.c@somewhere.invalid> wrote in message
>news:4639c92c$0$3060$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com. ..
>> Anybody else here use astraweb for usenet?
>>
>> How is it performing?
>>
>> I'm recently getting only 5kByte/s per connection and want to know if
>> it is astraweb or my ISP limiting it (I'm with orcon).
>
>Why don't you use Orcon's Usenet Server? (news.orcon.net.nz)
>
>Thanks
>



With No Binaries..?

Re: Anybody else here use astraweb for usenet?
 

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> With No Binaries..?
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There are binaries there.

Thanks

Re: Anybody else here use astraweb for usenet?
 

On 03 May 2007 11:36:13 GMT, Mark C <mark.c@somewhere.invalid> wrote:

>Anybody else here use astraweb for usenet?
>
>How is it performing?
>
>I'm recently getting only 5kByte/s per connection and want to know if
>it is astraweb or my ISP limiting it (I'm with orcon).

I'm on TC cable (Astraweb is a backup when theTC server can't find any
coins to feed into the slot) and today as a test I've just downloaded
some headers which came down at ~50kByte/sec, which is typical. A week
or so ago it was down to ~ 25kB.

--
Regards
Malcolm
Remove sharp objects to get a valid e-mail address

Re: Anybody else here use astraweb for usenet?
 

On 03 May 2007 11:36:13 GMT, Mark C <mark.c@somewhere.invalid> wrote:

>Anybody else here use astraweb for usenet?
>
>How is it performing?
>
>I'm recently getting only 5kByte/s per connection and want to know if
>it is astraweb or my ISP limiting it (I'm with orcon).
>
>Thanks,
>Mark



Never heard of astraweb, does it support decoded binary dnloads. ?



Go for some of the better ones like EasyNews, FTP dnloads of decoded Binaries, not the padded
NNTP slow service..



http://easynews.com/


or


http://www.newsguy.com/



Here is a great shell that works with these 2 Web sites, plus others..

http://member.newsguy.com/~leechguy/

Re: Anybody else here use astraweb for usenet?
 

On Fri, 4 May 2007 11:30:59 +1200, "Craig Whitmore" <lennon@orcon.net.nz> wrote:

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>> With No Binaries..?
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>There are binaries there.
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>Thanks
>



And at what retention rate and completeness.?

Orcon's newsserver (was Re: Anybody else here use astraweb for usenet?)
 

"Craig Whitmore" <lennon@orcon.net.nz> wrote in
news:463a3604$1@news.orcon.net.nz:

> "Mark C" <mark.c@somewhere.invalid> wrote in message
> news:4639c92c$0$3060$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
>> Anybody else here use astraweb for usenet?
>>
>> How is it performing?
>>
>> I'm recently getting only 5kByte/s per connection and want to
>> know if it is astraweb or my ISP limiting it (I'm with orcon).
>
> Why don't you use Orcon's Usenet Server? (news.orcon.net.nz)

I do also use Orcon's newserver and it is very good for some groups
and very fast.
(BTW, THANK YOU for providing such good usenet service.)

But for some (small-binary) groups the completion is around 80-90% so
I use astraweb as well (for fills; where an article is available on
Orcon I'll get it from there).

For large binary groups I figure it is better to use astraweb
exclusively, and download just *some* of the posts in the group (the
ones I'm interested in), rather than waste Orcon's bandwidth by
having Orcon unsuccessfully try and keep-up with a high-traffic group
and end up with incomplete posts that are not much good to me, or
that I am un-interested in anyway.

(Of course that theory only works if all of Orcon's customers ignore
that particular group, so it eventually expires and DNews stops
trying to download it.
AFAIK, Orcon's server uses DNews and you can cause Orcon to start
downloading a group by visiting it and downloading the "Group
download in progress" article.
What perhaps is also needed is a way to prune or remove groups where
Orcon should not even be trying to keep up with articles because the
result is just lots of incomplete files and waste of bandwidth.)

Thanks,
Mark

Re: Anybody else here use astraweb for usenet?
 

Malcolm Moore <abor1953needle@yahoodagger.co.nz> wrote in
news:k1tk33tsaup8f9v3kmoe8hu6m2uoo12iu9@4ax.com:

> On 03 May 2007 11:36:13 GMT, Mark C <mark.c@somewhere.invalid>
> wrote:
>>Anybody else here use astraweb for usenet?
>>I'm recently getting only 5kByte/s per connection and want to
>>know if it is astraweb or my ISP limiting it (I'm with orcon).
>
> I'm on TC cable (Astraweb is a backup when theTC server can't
> find any coins to feed into the slot) and today as a test I've
> just downloaded some headers which came down at ~50kByte/sec,
> which is typical. A week or so ago it was down to ~ 25kB.

Thanks.
It's now going at ~100kByte/s for me (on a short header download
test).
I'll test it again this evening.