Thinking of leaving Astraweb - Who is the next best provider?

[beerman]

Fine on AstraWeb for me...




I even gave Beerman a copy.

Yeah but it was missing s04e12

I too have noticed some stuff failing to download on astraweb. I was going to ditch them but didn't realise my 3 month sub was set to autorenew so looks like I'm with them for another 3 months.

[Geko]

Yeah but it was missing s04e12

I too have noticed some stuff failing to download on astraweb. I was going to ditch them but didn't realise my 3 month sub was set to autorenew so looks like I'm with them for another 3 months.

They upped 12 & 13 again. Due to the broken NZB. I had all of them before my last drive hiccup.

[Rick Sanchez]

What providers the best currently?

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[beerman]

i did post a seperate thread

but i have been using these for quite a while now
http://gibinews.eu/

3.50 a month lol

and a free trial

Just had my broadband upgraded to Sky fiber and was getting disappointing speeds on astraweb. I was only getting 1.3-1.5mb, tried a few nzbs and still only got those speeds. Thought it might be my BB so tried a download from Microsoft which gave me the full speed (4.5mb). Signed up for the trial and got the same speeds I did off MS so have signed up for a month and will see how it goes. For £2.88 it's worth a punt.

[Rick Sanchez]

Is their a explanation / idiots guide on NewsGroups? I'm 99.9% sure I understand it all but just want to make sure. Also I'm sure I read on this site that you can setup automatic downloads for TV episodes?

[drdude]

Big thanks for the heads up on gibinews - I'm getting 4.5MB/sec on Sky Fibre for a measly £2.88 subscription! Limited to 10 connections but this is no problem at all :-)

[DejaVu]

Keep us posted on your completion rates on Gibinews, I think they are pretty new to providing usenet (Since 2009 by the looks) and not many reviews around.


--EDIT
Robbed from elsewhere -

It appears connections to their news server is going into a server with OVH, a large web hosting company out of the UK.
»www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/ Prices are fairly cheap for a 1 Gbit or 10 GBit box.

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Not sure if it will last for too long seeing they are using a resellers webserver/backbone. The price is too good to be true, but time will tell.
While it's there, it may as well be used.

[drdude]

Keep us posted on your completion rates on Gibinews, I think they are pretty new to providing usenet (Since 2009 by the looks) and not many reviews around.

Yep will let you know how it goes. The only stuff I've got queued at the minute are 65 days and 10 days old respectively so can't imagine there being any incompletes.

[pheonixsingh]

pulling of any UFC content is really getting annoying, I usually watch the PPV events live on ESPN but its a pain trying to grab ultimate fighter episodes as its usually automated by sick beard.

does anyone know of any servers which are not getting the DMCA requests?

[bobo06]

It is a pain in the hole I'm downloading torrents for UFC especially for the ultimate fighter next step I think its FTP

[pheonixsingh]

http://www.morganelligroup.com/?p=133

That's the company which is issuing all the dmca takedowns for UFC related media

Apparently they are scouring forums, nzbmatrix etc and any servers which get mentioned which aren't effected by the dmca takedowns get flagged for the next UFC event

[pheonixsingh]

Gibinews is down, the website also says they have stopped operating.

[beerman]

Gibinews is down, the website also says they have stopped operating.

they tweeted on Friday saying they haven't got the money to continue. They also aren't confident that people will get their money back either as they haven't got any.

[pheonixsingh]

they tweeted on Friday saying they haven't got the money to continue. They also aren't confident that people will get their money back either as they haven't got any.

My downloads stopped coming through this morning, I paid via paypal so have opened a dispute, lets see what happens.

[bobo06]

Anyone having really bad speeds with astraweb. Currently downloading at 12/13mb should be getting 120mb.

[liveseytowers]

My speeds are fine but i'm getting lots of files that are saying out of my retention period or ones that are incomplete. Been trying to get a copy of Dredd or Flight for a bit but no joy. Anyone else having issues?

[braymond]

Most new releases are taken down within a day or so . You have to be quick or catch a repost . Or use a provider that's slower to take down as suggested previously in this thread as I recall

[bobo06]

Switched to newsdemon. flying down at 120mb

[gazza341]

Switched to newsdemon. flying down at 120mb

Nice one, glad to hear it. I too have just switched to news demon after being with astraweb for the last 8 years


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[Mystical_2K]

Nice one, glad to hear it. I too have just switched to news demon after being with astraweb for the last 8 years


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same here mate, been with astraweb since 2002 but just signed up with newsdemon and getting much faster speeds and can actually find things again