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Hi guys

I'm using version 5.01 and find that certain nzb's download at full speed while some don't download at all. Not getting any ghost data or anything, just that some work and some don't. Anybody else experiencing this? Does version 5.3 solve any problems that people have been experiencing with Newsbin lately?

Tried Newsleecher but the nzb's don't work there either, and it downloads ghost data i.e. it appears that the files have been downloaded, they are removed from the queue but there's nothing in the download folder. Grabit downloads these files properly but it runs at half the speed that I would normally get on Newsbin due to the fact that you cannot download from more than one server simulataneously so it's painfully slow.

Help please :( How do I get Newsbin working again for all nzb's?
 
Maybe the content isnt available on the news server. Im using grabit and also getting poor speeds but at least i get new content after a while... :)
 
I had the same problem with Newsleecher. Load a nzb file and it skips through the RAR files one by one and does nothing. I found that sometimes by shutting the program down and then reloading the nzb files they do download.

I've never liked Newsbin.

I've gone back to using Grabit though and always get what I'm after.
 
dabouncer said:
Maybe the content isnt available on the news server. Im using grabit and also getting poor speeds but at least i get new content after a while... :)
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I think if the content isn't available then the server retrieves it internationally and caches it locally. But it's odd that Grabit works and the others don't - so the content is definitely available for download. The question I think is why is Grabit the only one that works? Afterall they all feature simultaneous connections.

Tried Android as well, but it has the same problem as Grabit, since we're only allowed 4 connections the speeds are poor, and it doesn't allow you to use both servers simulataneously. I'm sure that simultaneous server connections can't be the problem because even if you try downloading from one server in Newsbin and Newsleecher it still doesn't work.
 
dabouncer said:
Eventually. :cool:
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Well I just closed Grabit now and it had completed an 8.5 GIG batch ;)

I did notice one difference between Newsleecher and Grabit.

Newsleecher seems to grab each RAR file with say 4 seperate threads and then moves on to the next one when each is finished.

Grabit downloads each RAR file in a seperate thread. Not sure if that's related.

but it has the same problem as Grabit, since we're only allowed 4 connections the speeds are poor, and it doesn't allow you to use both servers simulataneously.
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I have 4 connections to each server with Grabit no problem. Speeds might not be amazing, but at least it doesn't download air :D
 
dualmeister said:
Well I just closed Grabit now and it had completed an 8.5 GIG batch ;)

I did notice one difference between Newsleecher and Grabit.

Newsleecher seems to grab each RAR file with say 4 seperate threads and then moves on to the next one when each is finished.

Grabit downloads each RAR file in a seperate thread. Not sure if that's related.
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I thought about that, but surely a connection is still a connection whether it downloads parts or the entire file. How would the server go about determining this on the client side?

dualmeister said:
I have 4 connections to each server with Grabit no problem. Speeds might not be amazing, but at least it doesn't download air :D
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I've done that as well, but the only way to do this would be to manually set alternate files to download from the other server. It's time consuming but could also backfire should one thread download faster than the others. For example what could happen is that you might find one server trying to download 5 threads, when the maximum is 4. This would lead to an error on the 5th thread which could mess up the entire system you set in place :( For this to work, each thread would have to download at a constant speed for the entire duration of the download.
 
I'm really not sure how it works on the server side.

LOL what's the hurry. Even if one server is much slower than the other the important thing is that you get all your files at the end of the day IMO.

Just as long as you make sure that whatever you are downloading has a set of PAR files to go with it. For example, today I went back and saved a 1.4 GIG download which Newsleecher stuffed up 4 days ago. I used QuickPAR to see which files were OK and then proceeded to download the rest with Grabit. Some were even corrupt and QuickPAR saved the day.

I've never had a server trying to download 5 threads when I set the default at 4 on each server. I usually set the first half of the list to the one server then other half to the second server. If I see the one is quicker I give it more of the files to download.
 
dualmeister said:
I've never had a server trying to download 5 threads when I set the default at 4 on each server. I usually set the first half of the list to the one server then other half to the second server. If I see the one is quicker I give it more of the files to download.
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Ah ok I see the problem now, I had the max connections on each server set to the default 8, needed to change that to 4. Downloading from both simultaneously now. Thanks ;)
 
Ah good stuff :)

Oh yes and if you see Grabit is not decoding your files then right click on the server your using and say update grouplist as somebady mentioned. That saved my beacon when Grabit was not working for me :D
 
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