modey Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Ok i know i few people on here use them but having got fed up with torrents and filesonic/rapidshare i thought i would give usenet a try. I'm using newsleecher for the client and took out a month sub for astraweb and using nzbmatrix for the files. Problem is my download speed is poor, it's going from around 40kbs up to 180kbs but it's not maxing out and is up and down. Are there settings i've missed? it gives you a few options in usenet as the server name and port, which one should i use? any help appreciated btw hope this is ok to talk about on here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 why not buy your content from legitimate licensed distributors ? Content piracy robs the content owners of royalties and is no different from shoplifting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted September 3, 2011 Author Share Posted September 3, 2011 why not buy your content from legitimate licensed distributors ? Content piracy robs the content owners of royalties and is no different from shoplifting. yawnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn, anyone got any helpful information, if i wanted a lecture i'd have gone back to school Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 asking your question here, how you have phrased it, is analogous to asking for help to break into cars. Sure there might be legitimate reasons to need to know how to get into a car. But you made it obvious that you were looking for help to steal content. In which case you bring this forum into disrepute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted September 3, 2011 Author Share Posted September 3, 2011 asking your question here, how you have phrased it, is analogous to asking for help to break into cars. Sure there might be legitimate reasons to need to know how to get into a car. But you made it obvious that you were looking for help to steal content. In which case you bring this forum into disrepute. there are plenty of discussions regarding newsgroups on here, if you can't help don't bother posting, if a mod see's this thread as "bringing it in to dispute" then fair enough it will gt closed, however i haven't mentioned any copyright material or wanted to know how to "steal it" just how to set up newsgroups which are perfectly legal. you're on ignore now, so any future posts won't be read. If a mod want's to close this then fine by me, if not any help appreeciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immortalpuppet Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Could be a few things. Are they fixed ports or random ports? If you fix or the ports are fixed, have you opened the ports on your firewalls? Are you using any sort of download manager? There should be support via the softwares site which should cover faq/slow downloads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatdamaged Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 How many simultaneous connections does astraweb allow you on your package? For example Giganews allows me 50 at a time, which ensures my connection is always maxed out I would also ensure you were using SSL as well (if you're not already) Also check that you don't have any bandwidth throttling set up If you trial Newsbin Pro i can probably help you more as that's what i use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted September 3, 2011 Author Share Posted September 3, 2011 How many simultaneous connections does astraweb allow you on your package? For example Giganews allows me 50 at a time, which ensures my connection is always maxed out I would also ensure you were using SSL as well (if you're not already) Also check that you don't have any bandwidth throttling set up If you trial Newsbin Pro i can probably help you more as that's what i use. astraweb allows 20 connections so ive set grabit up as that and i'm using ssl. how can i check if i have bandwith throttling set up? i get better speed from torrents at the moment..i think it might be a throttling issue as when i first start grabit the download speed peaks at over 900kbs then drops down to around 300-400 I'll download newsbin pro and try that.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted September 3, 2011 Author Share Posted September 3, 2011 Looks like it's probably my connection, even though I live around 800m from the exchange in peel speedtest is showing i,m getting around 4meg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tribz Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Can I suggest easynews.com ... all content is availble via http or https as well as nntp making it very easy to download via a browser or download manager. I've been with them for 10 years now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatdamaged Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 I used to use Grabit, but it was forever crashing. I switched to Newsbin Pro for around £25 and it's really superb. I've never had it crash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ans Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 You should all be using SABNZB and Sickbeard. Nothing else required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted September 3, 2011 Author Share Posted September 3, 2011 Ditched grabit as it kept stopping in the middle of downloading and wouldn't start again unless I closed the programme Just trying sabnzb now, still only 400kbs though edit: just unplugged the network cable and tried a wireless dongle, 1100kbs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted September 4, 2011 Author Share Posted September 4, 2011 Sabnzb is working well cheers don't really need sickbeard though, as good as it looks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatdamaged Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 I tried Astraweb last night, was only getting 1.1MB/s download speed. Went back to Giganews and was getting 2.0MB! Looks like Astraweb isn't as fast, although it's a third of the price! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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