Astraweb quality declining?

Sinbad

Sinbad

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So lately I've noticed a few episodes have failed to download, missing articles, not enough repair blocks etc.
All brand new eps too. Latest was Mythbusters S11E02.Trench.Torpedo.720p.HDTV.x264-DHD. 146 articles missing.
The Walking Dead D03E01 93 articles missing...

Anyone else having similar issues?
 
Nope. Mine is working perfectly doing 720p downloads.
 
Hmm.
Will retry them tonight. Maybe my sickbeard is just too quick on the draw, before the articles have propagated?
 
Sinbad said:
Hmm.
Will retry them tonight. Maybe my sickbeard is just too quick on the draw, before the articles have propagated?
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I have had that happen lately, when I changed my news client I found out the problem was DMCA take downs. Some I have seen taken down as soon as the first day.
 
fonoi said:
I have had that happen lately, when I changed my news client I found out the problem was DMCA take downs. Some I have seen taken down as soon as the first day.
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No problems here with 1080p
 
I moved to SuperNews as well due to these DMCA takedowns. Still have like 600GB left on my Astraweb block account.
 
Comments from NZBmatrix:

incomplete on atraweb

complete on astraweb, it was just being uploaded still when this nzb was posted

^ Thanks AcidRain, I thought it was a provider issue (DMCA)
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I'm still having issues with missing articles :/
 
Newsdemon bro

Check what they running now, 7 dollar unlimited, then 10 dollars a month. Newsdemon is just about the cheapest. Also they give you a 30gb storage account which is awesome. Since i moved from astraweb to newsdemon i have never looked back.

All my work files upload to my 30gb storage just in case my hdd fails plus back up :D.

Supernews lies, best value anywhere at 12 dollar while newsdemon is 7 dollars first month, then 10 dollars, more connections and a 30gb account plus free software that is not great but still newsdemon must be the best value or somewhere close.
 
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Astraweb have confirmed to me that my issues are caused by DMCA takedowns.
Time to investigate supernews
 
Sinbad said:
Astraweb have confirmed to me that my issues are caused by DMCA takedowns.
Time to investigate supernews
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If you gonna use Supernews, make sure to put their European servers as the secondary backup link!
 
Hmm. You can test which one gives you best results. Not sure if it will make a diff. But it is nice to have a backup server.
 
Garyvdh said:
Hmm. You can test which one gives you best results. Not sure if it will make a diff. But it is nice to have a backup server.
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I tried different astraweb servers with no luck, so not sure how much that helps...?

I get line speed on the eu ssl one which is quite nice ;)
 
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