AstraWeb

mike171562 · Post by **mike171562** » June 5th, 2009, 12:42 pm

Hello, I just starting using sabnzbd recently and having problems with speeds, originally I was using all of the free servers i could find and my speeds were bouncing from 30K up to 1000K, I have a 50M comcast cable connection. I decided to sign up for Astraweb's unlimited 1Mb account, and set them up in my Sabnzbd, I removed most of the free servers and was using Astraweb and one other, and my speeds dropped to a consistant 50K, i tried various ports and w/SSL off and on and the result is about the same, does anyone else use Astraweb and what speeds do you get??

interfacelift · Post by **interfacelift** » June 5th, 2009, 12:55 pm

I have astraweb and have no problems maxing out my Comcast 6.25mbit (800kbytes/sec) connection.

I'm using astraweb with SSL w/SABnzbd 0.4.11 on my Mac.

mike171562 · Post by **mike171562** » June 5th, 2009, 12:56 pm

Hi, are you using Astraweb with any other servers or alone? is your speed consistant? also, which astra web server are you using and which port? Thanks.

BTW, I am using a new quadcore Dell machine running Ubuntu and Sabnzbd 4.11. Should i try port forwarding on my router?

interfacelift · Post by **interfacelift** » June 5th, 2009, 1:04 pm

Astraweb alone. No major drops in speed unless I'm downloading stuff at the outer reaches of retention (250+ days). Since they're outgoing connections, there's no need to forward ports.

Host/IP: secure.news.astraweb.com
Port: 563
# Connections: 10
Timeout: 120
SSL Encrypted: checked

mike171562 · Post by **mike171562** » June 5th, 2009, 1:09 pm

I removed all other servers and used those same settings and I get

Download speed: 167.39 KB/s

what the heck is going on?

interfacelift · Post by **interfacelift** » June 5th, 2009, 1:16 pm

Try it without SSL, see if it improves.

Are you downloading something relatively recently posted?

mike171562 · Post by **mike171562** » June 5th, 2009, 1:52 pm

Yes, i have tried with and without SSL and with different ports, I even tried the europe server. The Nzb files im getting are from nzbmatrix and are all fairly recent. The only way for me to get higher than 100K is to mix in a few of the free servers then the connection bounces around, but i can get over 500K. i emailed Astraweb support, but havent heard back.

Whats the point of using a pay server if i can get faster speeds with free ones?

switch · Post by **switch** » June 5th, 2009, 2:18 pm

mike171562 wrote: ... I decided to sign up for Astraweb's unlimited 1Mb account ...

You signed up for the wrong astraweb plan. That plan limits the maximum download speed to 1Mbit which is 125KB/s

The plan you probably meant was the $11 special located here: http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.html

mike171562 · Post by **mike171562** » June 5th, 2009, 2:25 pm

aww crap really? I wonder if they'll swith me

mike171562 · Post by **mike171562** » June 5th, 2009, 2:39 pm

Switch, you were correct, i signed up for the special unlimited and speeds shot up to 664.11 KB/s, thanks for the help.

joshua · Post by **joshua** » June 14th, 2009, 9:24 am

I've been a giganews customer for years but was thinking about switching to something a little cheaper if the competitiion has caught up... In general, are people pretty happy w/ AstraWeb vs. Giganews? $11/mo seems a lot cheaper than $25

wyd1 · Post by **wyd1** » June 14th, 2009, 9:42 am

joshua wrote: I've been a giganews customer for years but was thinking about switching to something a little cheaper if the competitiion has caught up... In general, are people pretty happy w/ AstraWeb vs. Giganews? $11/mo seems a lot cheaper than $25

No probs here, i'm happy with AstaWeb. Constant speed

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