News server related queries

[Ichtys]

Is this normal?
http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/showphoto.php?photo=9438&cat=500
I get big spikes in the download rate (around 250kb/s on a 384 line).
This is during the weekend which I believe is supposed to be unshaped time.

Grabit does not show you the true download speed. The spikes you see could be from data already available from some or other cache area on your PC.

 

[MrSmith]

How is the IS news server doing these day any better than SAIX?

 

[UtterNutter]

This last weekend was utter trash... ~100mb per day.

Yesterday it was flying: I did 13gb in 9 hours.

Today, back to being garbage.

 

[graytg]

saix seems down atm..

 

[MrSmith]

saix seems down atm..

Yeah was getting some "drips" earlier but seems totally kaput now

 

[Thestealth]

It's close to month end so most peeps are blowing their cap. It's prolly just load. And those IP copping bastards...

 

[Aqox]

Downloaded 105 GB in 3 days via giganews on IS connection... proof is in the pudding: http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/5096/isterminatedcopy.jpg

 

[TheLoot]

Downloaded 105 GB in 3 days via giganews on IS connection... proof is in the pudding: http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/5096/isterminatedcopy.jpg

Stupid question perhaps, but what type of IS account was that - 30 GB local?! It's the biggest (short of uncapped) IS account OpenWeb offers.

Were you using the OpenBrowse during the "download" times or just a straight normal account?

 

[Aqox]

giganews is not local... international bandwidth, doing ssl connections, not shaped
connection is a secret, but on 4mbps ADSL

 

[colddeath]

Yeah today trying a 3/3 cached item, cannot even connect to either servers.

PS: I have a 1MB - 4GB (International) 60GB (Local) line, was wondering which server would be better, because some say go for what your Service Provider supplies?
Was wondering what server does my ISP run on??

.Thanks.

 

[assasin20xe]

who is your ISP?

 

[colddeath]

Telkom.

 

[assasin20xe]

With telkom you only can use the SAIX server(news.saix.net)

 

[colddeath]

Oh that makes alot more sense lol, thanks m8, was wondering why my IS server wasn't working hehe

 

[venom]

Downloaded 105 GB in 3 days via giganews on IS connection... proof is in the pudding: http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/5096/isterminatedcopy.jpg

and that pudding is soggy because of what you're downloading. sad times

 

[cavedog]

hmmm SAIX seems much faster today!

 

[undesign]

I recently decided to use Alt Binz instead of GrabIT. Quick question - I must be staring at it, but not seeing it - how do you get Alt Binz to download multiple files simultaneously instead of multiple instances/articles simultaneously of the same file?

GrabIT would for instance start with xxxxxx.rar, xxxxxx.r01 etc. etc. etc (depending on how many connections you have - 10 with Giganews) where as Alt Binz will open all available connections on xxxxxx.rar - finish that - and then move onto xxxxxx.r01.

Thanks!

 

[qinglung]

I recently decided to use Alt Binz instead of GrabIT. Quick question - I must be staring at it, but not seeing it - how do you get Alt Binz to download multiple files simultaneously instead of multiple instances/articles simultaneously of the same file?

GrabIT would for instance start with xxxxxx.rar, xxxxxx.r01 etc. etc. etc (depending on how many connections you have - 10 with Giganews) where as Alt Binz will open all available connections on xxxxxx.rar - finish that - and then move onto xxxxxx.r01.

There is no way, that is how Alt.binz does its downloading.

Personally I prefer the Alt.binz way of finishing one file with 5 threads, rather than finishing 5 files with one thread on each. That way I can get the .rar file finished first so I can check what's inside and/or the quality of the release.

Why would you want to do it GrabIt's way?

 

[scumbag]

anyone else having trouble loading newshost?

 

[LazyLion]

BF and NH were both offline this morning. Will be back soon. Don't worry.