Broadband Tech > Filesharing Software > astraweb vs. powerusenet

astraweb vs. powerusenet

I dont see that deal mentioned anywhere on astraweb's website. Are you sure your on the right website??

reply to cbp
2nded. Where is that deal mentioned as that is better than the NGroups.Net lifetime $11.99 special as Astraweb is aiming to have 200 days retention before the year is out?

reply to cbp
Nevermind found it. A great deal-

»www.news.astraweb.com/specials/k···-11.html

reply to cbp
As far as astraweb i used to love them up until october when i switched to ngroups for a better deal. At the time they only had 62 days of retention but they barely had issues. Im tempted to go back to them with this new deal, BUT ive heard some people complain about completion while others say they dont have a problem...

reply to cbp
I wonder if existing customers can get on this deal. I just emailed AstraWeb support and asked them. I hope so.

reply to cbp
Hmmm... I did a traceroute to both astraweb and powerusenet and astraweb got on average between 90 and 200 ms while poweusenet gets less than 60ms always.

Traceroute to astraweb:

Hop Address Min (ms) Max (ms) Avg (ms) +/- (ms)
1 xxx.net.bell.ca (xx.xx.xx.xx) 28.65 39.70 32.38
2 xxx.net.bell.ca (xx.xx.xx.xx) 30.33 43.44 35.17 2.79
3 xxx.net.bell.ca (xx.xx.xx.xx) 34.31 36.07 35.19 0.02
4 xxx.net.bell.ca (xx.xx.xx.xx) 36.53 43.14 40.80 5.61
5 xxx.net.bell.ca (xx.xx.xx.xx) 32.70 52.03 40.02 -0.77
6 te9-4.mpd01.jfk05.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.10.205) 30.80 49.48 37.53 -2.49
7 te9-2.mpd03.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.5.209) 32.28 41.67 36.98 -0.55
8 te2-2.mpd01.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.1) 41.93 49.28 46.77 9.79
9 * 56.27 58.18 57.23 10.46
10 te8-4.mpd01.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.4.185) 73.19 78.13 75.76 18.53
11 te7-4.mpd01.sfo01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.34) 99.14 108.47 103.45 27.69
12 te7-4.mpd01.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.134) 98.07 111.20 105.33 1.88
13 vl3495.mpd01.sjc06.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.150) 101.60 112.10 105.64 0.31
14 38.99.107.2 94.73 114.13 104.65 -0.99
15 unknown.sj.astraweb.com (216.151.153.42) 105.36 114.30 109.43 4.78

Powerusenet:

Hop Address Min (ms) Max (ms) Avg (ms) +/- (ms)
1 xxx.net.bell.ca (xx.xx.xx.xx) 32.55 39.98 35.51
2 xxx.net.bell.ca (xx.xx.xx.xx) 26.80 40.52 33.66 -1.86
3 xxx.net.bell.ca (xx.xx.xx.xx) 38.58 39.73 39.32 5.66
4 xxx.net.bell.ca (xx.xx.xx.xx) 45.36 50.43 48.21 8.90
5 xxx.net.bell.ca (xx.xx.xx.xx) 45.10 52.95 49.46 1.24
6 tge8-2.fr3.lga.llnw.net (208.111.134.205) 38.02 49.41 42.32 -7.14
7 tge2-4.fr3.iad.llnw.net (69.28.171.157) 46.89 51.05 49.56 7.24
8 giganews.ge3-4.fr3.iad.llnw.net (69.28.156.174) 50.99 53.00 52.20 2.64
9 *
10 *
11 *
12 *
13 *
14 *
15 *
16 *
17 *
18 *
19 news.powerusenet.com (216.196.97.161) 45.25 52.68 47.84

Anyone care to comment on these results?

Thanks

I would use reverse traceroutes unless you are planning on doing a lot of uploading as the routes can be completely different.

Astraweb:»www.news.astraweb.com/tools/tracepub.cgi

Giganews (as Powerusenet is a Giganews reseller):

»www.giganews.com/performance.html

news.giganews.com

1 216.196.98.6 (216.196.98.6) 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms
2 193.159.224.17 (193.159.224.17) 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms
3 62.156.128.110 (62.156.128.110) 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms
4 sl-bb21-dc-10-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.151) 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms
5 sl-crs2-rly-0-8-3-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.9.213) 3 ms 2 ms 2 ms
6 sl-bb27-nyc-5-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.164) 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms
7 sl-bb23-nyc-3-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.7.109) 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms
8 sl-gw31-nyc-0-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.13.32) 18 ms 13 ms 15 ms
9 sl-nexxia-6-0.sprintlink.net (160.81.111.38) 15 ms 17 ms 14 ms
10 xxx.net.bell.ca (xx.xx.xx.xx) 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms
11 xxx.net.bell.ca (xx.xx.xx.xx) 21 ms 21 ms 21 ms
12 xxx.net.bell.ca (xx.xx.xx.xx) 20 ms 21 ms 21 ms
13 xxx.net.bell.ca (xx.xx.xx.xx) 24 ms 22 ms 22 ms
14 * * *
15 * * *
16 * * *
Max number of unresponsive hops reached (firewall or filter?)

Traceroute from us.news.astraweb.com:
Hostname Best Worst Avg
0 gw.eqnx.sj.astraweb.com (216.151.153.1) 0.28 0.96 0.43
1 gi7-9.mpd01.sjc06.atlas.cogentco.com (38.99.107.1) 0.31 0.70 0.52
2 te4-3.ccr02.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.7.105) 0.69 19.85 4.55
3 te3-3.ccr02.sfo01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.2.125) 1.75 112.70 24.00
4 te2-1.ccr02.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.41) 36.91 37.60 37.07
5 te1-3.ccr02.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.213) 47.71 62.02 50.60
6 bellnexxia.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.11.30) 51.72 54.87 52.53
7 xxx.net.bell.ca (xx.xx.xx.xx) 48.28 48.41 48.33
8 xxx.net.bell.ca (xx.xx.xx.xx) 58.57 58.99 58.89
9 xxx.net.bell.ca (xx.xx.xx.xx) 58.75 58.95 58.83
10 xxx.net.bell.ca (xx.xx.xx.xx) 75.80 76.18 75.94
11 xxx.net.bell.ca (xx.xx.xx.xx) 75.40 75.75 75.61
12 xxx.net.bell.ca (xx.xx.xx.xx) 77.16 86.11 79.41
13 xxx.dsl.bell.ca (xx.xx.xx.xx) 91.70 93.37 92.20

Reverse trace.

reply to cbp
Well, I signed up for now to test it out.

From what I see it maxes out my connection (7MBps).

Will test it for another week and see how it goes.
I like the SSL option, yet to be tested, just in case my ISP decides to throttle usenet.

reply to Stem Bolt

quote:

---

If you would like to upgrade/downgrade your account, please signup again for your new account at:
»www.news.astraweb.com/specials/k···-11.html
When prompted for your username/password, do not proceed. Instead, email us your new order number (which will be emailed to you from 2CO after you have signed up) and your existing username and we will convert your account. A pro-rated refund will be issued on your previous order.

---

thanks

reply to Stem Bolt
Nice, just signed up for 11 buck deal myself last night. 2400KB/s average with 12 connections - no complaints in the speed department.

My complaint is that they advertise 140 days, yet I couldn't pull a multi-part posting at 133 days. Not nearly enough pars to complete. I'm disappointed.

That blows, hope that's not a problem for me in the future.
Well maybe when retention reaches 200 days I'll be able to pull 150 day stuff!

reply to Goober

Same here I don't have any issues, just finished getting 10+ gigs from 131 days no pars needed.

reply to Ryan
It was a relatively large multi-part binary that I picked randomly based on the number of days old the article was.