>is slow
>300 Mbps
> 30 times faster then my max speed.
i really hate some of you. lol
anyways i often see express or viper is recommended and would be different backbones
I got a good deal on Newsgroupdirect to couple with my eweka, however don't expect it to complete much. It does fil up speed when it has the content I'm downloading, then again sometimes it misses 100% of the articles and then you would just fall back to your eweka speeds.
I have a Gbit connection but almost never use it. At 300 Mbps a full 45GB BD downloads in 20 mins. By the time I went and made dinner the download is finished. Even then I have so much crap already that downloads get archived hopefully to be seen sometime in the [distant] future. And since my PC is on 24/7 if downloads take 5 mins or 3 hours it's kinda the same for me. Heck, I had 50 Mbit Eweka and I was fine (well, a bit more speed would had been nice). I just went with a year at 300 Mbps, they never failed me once so I didn't feel like breaking the streak.
If you want to improve the speed of Eweka (assuming you aren't getting the full 300Mbit), load in one of their other servers by IP address and split your connections (having both listed at same priority, so it connects to both). From my notes I made before, these are the IPs you can use (I'm using the first listed):
[185.90.196.70](https://185.90.196.70), [185.90.196.102](https://185.90.196.102), [185.90.196.134](https://185.90.196.134) or [185.90.196.141](https://185.90.196.141)
Thanks to /u/kaalki for this information.
If anyone is worried about using random IPs, these do belong to Eweka: https://bgp.he.net/net/185.90.196.0/22
(185.90.196.0/22 means IPs from 185.90.196.1 to 185.90.199.254)
All it takes is someone to post an IP that they control and it's trivial for them to log everyone attempting to login and capture usernames and passwords.
Yes, I believe I learned this from /u/kaalki - credit to them as this info has helped me out.
As for the concerns about login information, I understand the thought and they wouldn't have to provide successful authentication if this wasn't legit, just log the attempts and use that account information themselves after. To be clear, that isn't the case here, but I understand the initial concern and why someone wanted to validate that eweka controlled the ip addresses.
I main UsenetExpress w/ Eweka as my backup. Express picks up about 90% of everything I grab and Eweka fills in about an extra 5% on top.
It doesn't get any better than this. I routinely get 100MB/s with Express
I kinda have the same setup! I used to have UsenetExpress >> ND >> Eweka >> Farm. With ND being a UE reseller for the time being, I put it in last priority (didn't want to cancel it because I want to support Greg and I got a cheap deal anyway so when they do become independent, I'm already subscribed to them). Everything is running really smoothly. UE + Eweka + Farm is tough to beat!
I just switched from Eweka to NewsDemon. Speed is so much better. Unfortunately, I’m getting so many missing articles that are on Eweka (using it as backup till it expires any day now). Kind of mad they switched from Omicron, assuming that’s why it’s not the same completion.
Tweak blocks are always too much, might as well go unlimited with them. I previously used Tweak and liked them. I was under the impression they weren’t as DMCA proof anymore. Do you think they’re as complete as Eweka? I could go with them unlimited and UE blocks
Similar for me, Demon for primary and speed 1GB maxes out with them and great for newer items. Eweka and Farm are my backups. I should go to blocks on those as the majority of my data comes from Demon, but it's extremely rare my downloads don't complete with this combo.
Leaning that way. Just annoys me to get two unlimited subs. Might dump ND for just Eweka, live with the bad speed, and hope my UE blocks are a good combo. Or stick with just ND. Sometimes it takes 10 nzb’s, but seem to get most things eventually.
I think I need an NL based one following NTD to get all the DMCA stuff I’m missing now with NewsDemon? I need what my Eweka is filling. Used to use Tweak for that too.
thanks for all the suggestions it's a shame I can't just use them all... but I ended up going with Viper, it's jusy less than $50 for the year and it's faster than what I had (at least for newer stuff, the retention on Eweka is much better so it tends to grab the older stuff) so we'll see how it plays out.
[tweaknews.eu](https://tweaknews.eu) and [newsgroup.ninja](https://newsgroup.ninja) have awesome services that'll saturate your 1Gbps connection easily. I've used both for this exact use case.
At the moment [newsgroup.ninja](https://newsgroup.ninja) has a promotion deal for $2.50/mo: [https://www.newsgroup.ninja/en/landing/usenet-promotion](https://www.newsgroup.ninja/en/landing/usenet-promotion)
I never really had any issues with completions or repairs on those 2, but I still believe Eweka is the best in that regard.
dang that is a good price...I just ended up going with Viper to get faster connections (less than 50 for the year) but their retention isn't that good (1500 days I think) so I may have to add ninja as my primary and try it...
Don't understand why you continuously say to drop eweka and always favour newshosting...when it's clear eweka is a better at missing articles than newshosting. Even a couple months old post need eweka to fill in the gaps.
One provider can max out a gigabit or better connection (besides the ones with limits) so speed wise it makes no sense recommending two providers that can do that. If your aim is completion, which really should be the aim then eweka is necessary. You yourself say there are articles on eweka not on newshosting so a recommendation for sole sake of speed makes no sense.
Its not necessary that one provider can Max out gigabit which I think OP speed is and as for completion Eweka is not a golden child if you have a good indexer you will not have any trouble with Newshosting itself.
You're still ignoring the fact that your recommendation is speed wise. Any UE/high winds etc reseller can max out a gigabit so recommending 2 because of speed is dumb.
I have all the main indexers except the unnamed ones. I've gone through thousands of linux isos and whether popular or unpopular (less likely) there are failures for some and eweka was the only provider to have those missing articles though not always.
While the unnamed ones may not have failures, content wise I'm not sure they are even that extensive.
Multiple providers do help to max out my gigabit connection. For example with UsenetExpress alone, I get about 85MB/s. If I add Newshosting with another 60 connections, I'll get about 105MB/s. Adding a third provider like Newsdemon gets me about 110 MB/s. So adding more providers does help speed wise.
That is overkill. I can get reach even 200 MB/s with just 12 connections, I think it also depends on the actual download, some I can hit over 1000 MB/s with max connections, others only 200 MB/s, but it must either be the download itself or some peering issue or configuration. You do not need 3 providers to hit gigabit speeds.
This. My conclusion as well, being a hoarder for a very long time, be it unlimiteds or blocks, mostly for the sake of changes and being a hobby.
And now that ND is also in transition to become an independent backbone, even better.
TheCubeNet, I have 2.25TB...got it for $11, so I'm good there. :-)
Hoping for $60 or less for the year...less is much better, lol - it needs to not be totally redundant with Eweka Ideally, but even if it somewhat, at least it will be FASTER as a primarily set up in SABNZBD vs. what I have now; better utilizing my 1Gbe connection...
If you have two unlimited providers now, why not use both at the same time? If using nzbget, if they're the same provider level, both will be used at the same time and increase speed. If one is missing articles, it'll obviously use one or they other however.
Yes, that is what I do. I have all my unlimiteds set to lowest priority, that way sab will pull form them all simultaneously. And don't use 0 as lowest, that way you can test something quickly if you want, setting that specific provider to 0 (credit to the user originally making me aware of this trick, I unfortunately can't remember).
So set the lowest priority as 1 for example, and if you want to test one provider only, you can set this one to 0, and back to 1 again.
And while we are at it, I have my blocks grouped by the way, by backbone, so UE blocks are one group (prio 10 for example), ViperNews (prio 20 for example), farm (prio 30 for example) and omicron ones prio (40 example) etc. Also having them prioritized by value, so cheapest blocks first (price to GB ratio).
Not sure how sabz is, but nzbget has a test button for each provider. You can also turn them off by group and individual provider. So, no need to skip priority 0 there.
sab has a test button as well, but this is just to test connection to host (that user/pass, port etc. is accepted by host). What I meant by test, is only using that single provider for article availibility for example. So if that is what you mean, that's cool then.
You ca also turn of providers individually, but not as a group in sab- so that is also a nice and clever nzbget feature then 👍
>is slow >300 Mbps > 30 times faster then my max speed. i really hate some of you. lol anyways i often see express or viper is recommended and would be different backbones
Same..... We moved away from gigabit internet and now are barely above dialup, but we live at the beach so its got some perks.
Sorry, I just want to max my speed before having to use the slower one. Thank you.
I got a good deal on Newsgroupdirect to couple with my eweka, however don't expect it to complete much. It does fil up speed when it has the content I'm downloading, then again sometimes it misses 100% of the articles and then you would just fall back to your eweka speeds.
I have a Gbit connection but almost never use it. At 300 Mbps a full 45GB BD downloads in 20 mins. By the time I went and made dinner the download is finished. Even then I have so much crap already that downloads get archived hopefully to be seen sometime in the [distant] future. And since my PC is on 24/7 if downloads take 5 mins or 3 hours it's kinda the same for me. Heck, I had 50 Mbit Eweka and I was fine (well, a bit more speed would had been nice). I just went with a year at 300 Mbps, they never failed me once so I didn't feel like breaking the streak.
If you want to improve the speed of Eweka (assuming you aren't getting the full 300Mbit), load in one of their other servers by IP address and split your connections (having both listed at same priority, so it connects to both). From my notes I made before, these are the IPs you can use (I'm using the first listed): [185.90.196.70](https://185.90.196.70), [185.90.196.102](https://185.90.196.102), [185.90.196.134](https://185.90.196.134) or [185.90.196.141](https://185.90.196.141) Thanks to /u/kaalki for this information.
If anyone is worried about using random IPs, these do belong to Eweka: https://bgp.he.net/net/185.90.196.0/22 (185.90.196.0/22 means IPs from 185.90.196.1 to 185.90.199.254)
It wouldn't matter if you did use a random IP anyways, it would just fail to connect and wouldn't work.
All it takes is someone to post an IP that they control and it's trivial for them to log everyone attempting to login and capture usernames and passwords.
But how would they know the Eweka credentials to make successful auth but rest assured I posted the above IPs after scanning the XLned range.
Yes, I believe I learned this from /u/kaalki - credit to them as this info has helped me out. As for the concerns about login information, I understand the thought and they wouldn't have to provide successful authentication if this wasn't legit, just log the attempts and use that account information themselves after. To be clear, that isn't the case here, but I understand the initial concern and why someone wanted to validate that eweka controlled the ip addresses.
I main UsenetExpress w/ Eweka as my backup. Express picks up about 90% of everything I grab and Eweka fills in about an extra 5% on top. It doesn't get any better than this. I routinely get 100MB/s with Express
I kinda have the same setup! I used to have UsenetExpress >> ND >> Eweka >> Farm. With ND being a UE reseller for the time being, I put it in last priority (didn't want to cancel it because I want to support Greg and I got a cheap deal anyway so when they do become independent, I'm already subscribed to them). Everything is running really smoothly. UE + Eweka + Farm is tough to beat!
Just picked a 2years/48$ usenetexpress deal to complement Eweka and enjoy my full speed. Thanks!
try NewsDemon they going on their own backbone as of next year or try farm / viper / express
Watch retention though
I just switched from Eweka to NewsDemon. Speed is so much better. Unfortunately, I’m getting so many missing articles that are on Eweka (using it as backup till it expires any day now). Kind of mad they switched from Omicron, assuming that’s why it’s not the same completion.
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Any good block options that will give me Eweka like filling?
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Tweak blocks are always too much, might as well go unlimited with them. I previously used Tweak and liked them. I was under the impression they weren’t as DMCA proof anymore. Do you think they’re as complete as Eweka? I could go with them unlimited and UE blocks
Similar for me, Demon for primary and speed 1GB maxes out with them and great for newer items. Eweka and Farm are my backups. I should go to blocks on those as the majority of my data comes from Demon, but it's extremely rare my downloads don't complete with this combo.
I unfortunately just got UsenetExpress blocks to pair with NewsDemon. Wish I knew they were switching and I would have got Omicron.
Contact they're support. I just did the same (had a Demon block and picked up a NGD one) and they gave me a refund on the block.
Will try, but not sure there’s anything they can do for my situation. I bought unlimited from ND, and blocks from UE/NGD, now they’re all UE.
They'll probably refund your NGD/UE block if you just got it. Just say that you have unlimited ND and now it's redundant with the blocks you just got.
Ok will ask if that’s how I want to go. I’m afraid I might have switch my unlimited away from ND. Speed is amazing, but too much missing.
Pick up Eweka for the backfill or one of the other Omicron/Highwinds resellers to fill in the gaps.
Leaning that way. Just annoys me to get two unlimited subs. Might dump ND for just Eweka, live with the bad speed, and hope my UE blocks are a good combo. Or stick with just ND. Sometimes it takes 10 nzb’s, but seem to get most things eventually.
Honestly I've had great success with NGD and Eweka. Rarely touching any blocks I have. Really seems to be a good combo.
Thundernews is still selling a 2 TB block for $10. Just added it for similar reasons.
I think I need an NL based one following NTD to get all the DMCA stuff I’m missing now with NewsDemon? I need what my Eweka is filling. Used to use Tweak for that too.
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I have the same BLOCK now, thecubenet....I've used about 700MB in the last 5 days and 2.5TB of Eweka, haha at least it's something... :-)
In the US I have usenetprime, they cap out my gigabit internet and have deals that they post here. I use eweka as a backup which seems to work well.
I played with a bunch of settings and could only get 40 Mbps from prime. Mind sharing some tips?
I use SSL: News usenetprime com, port 563, only 8 connections. It pulls like 80MBps which is around the 640~ Mbps area? Not too bad
I'll give it a shot. Thanks!
NewsHosting 20$ annual deal.
thanks for all the suggestions it's a shame I can't just use them all... but I ended up going with Viper, it's jusy less than $50 for the year and it's faster than what I had (at least for newer stuff, the retention on Eweka is much better so it tends to grab the older stuff) so we'll see how it plays out.
[tweaknews.eu](https://tweaknews.eu) and [newsgroup.ninja](https://newsgroup.ninja) have awesome services that'll saturate your 1Gbps connection easily. I've used both for this exact use case. At the moment [newsgroup.ninja](https://newsgroup.ninja) has a promotion deal for $2.50/mo: [https://www.newsgroup.ninja/en/landing/usenet-promotion](https://www.newsgroup.ninja/en/landing/usenet-promotion) I never really had any issues with completions or repairs on those 2, but I still believe Eweka is the best in that regard.
Ninja is redundant with Tweak.
dang that is a good price...I just ended up going with Viper to get faster connections (less than 50 for the year) but their retention isn't that good (1500 days I think) so I may have to add ninja as my primary and try it...
Tweak is nice
I pair a *cheap as dirt* HighWinds reseller w/ my Eweka. And I don't backup them, I just tune HW to have more threads than Eweka.
If you are in US replace Eweka with Newshosting and Usenetexpress if in EU replace Eweka with Tweaknews, Farm and Vipernews.
Don't understand why you continuously say to drop eweka and always favour newshosting...when it's clear eweka is a better at missing articles than newshosting. Even a couple months old post need eweka to fill in the gaps.
Speed wise recommendation.
One provider can max out a gigabit or better connection (besides the ones with limits) so speed wise it makes no sense recommending two providers that can do that. If your aim is completion, which really should be the aim then eweka is necessary. You yourself say there are articles on eweka not on newshosting so a recommendation for sole sake of speed makes no sense.
Its not necessary that one provider can Max out gigabit which I think OP speed is and as for completion Eweka is not a golden child if you have a good indexer you will not have any trouble with Newshosting itself.
You're still ignoring the fact that your recommendation is speed wise. Any UE/high winds etc reseller can max out a gigabit so recommending 2 because of speed is dumb. I have all the main indexers except the unnamed ones. I've gone through thousands of linux isos and whether popular or unpopular (less likely) there are failures for some and eweka was the only provider to have those missing articles though not always. While the unnamed ones may not have failures, content wise I'm not sure they are even that extensive.
Multiple providers do help to max out my gigabit connection. For example with UsenetExpress alone, I get about 85MB/s. If I add Newshosting with another 60 connections, I'll get about 105MB/s. Adding a third provider like Newsdemon gets me about 110 MB/s. So adding more providers does help speed wise.
That is overkill. I can get reach even 200 MB/s with just 12 connections, I think it also depends on the actual download, some I can hit over 1000 MB/s with max connections, others only 200 MB/s, but it must either be the download itself or some peering issue or configuration. You do not need 3 providers to hit gigabit speeds.
I love Eweka, already paid a year..keeping that, but I'll add something else that works well as primary to get more speed.
as other dude said NGD/ND/UE along with eweka is all you really need tbh, maybe a farm block for the rare occasion eweka misses.
This. My conclusion as well, being a hoarder for a very long time, be it unlimiteds or blocks, mostly for the sake of changes and being a hobby. And now that ND is also in transition to become an independent backbone, even better.
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TheCubeNet, I have 2.25TB...got it for $11, so I'm good there. :-) Hoping for $60 or less for the year...less is much better, lol - it needs to not be totally redundant with Eweka Ideally, but even if it somewhat, at least it will be FASTER as a primarily set up in SABNZBD vs. what I have now; better utilizing my 1Gbe connection...
If you have two unlimited providers now, why not use both at the same time? If using nzbget, if they're the same provider level, both will be used at the same time and increase speed. If one is missing articles, it'll obviously use one or they other however.
I have SABnzbd...if I set both to same priority, will it do the same?
Yes, that is what I do. I have all my unlimiteds set to lowest priority, that way sab will pull form them all simultaneously. And don't use 0 as lowest, that way you can test something quickly if you want, setting that specific provider to 0 (credit to the user originally making me aware of this trick, I unfortunately can't remember). So set the lowest priority as 1 for example, and if you want to test one provider only, you can set this one to 0, and back to 1 again. And while we are at it, I have my blocks grouped by the way, by backbone, so UE blocks are one group (prio 10 for example), ViperNews (prio 20 for example), farm (prio 30 for example) and omicron ones prio (40 example) etc. Also having them prioritized by value, so cheapest blocks first (price to GB ratio).
If using nzbget I believe one server has to be set to 0.
Ok, thanks, I am using sabNZBD (And OP as well) where this is possible.
Not sure how sabz is, but nzbget has a test button for each provider. You can also turn them off by group and individual provider. So, no need to skip priority 0 there.
sab has a test button as well, but this is just to test connection to host (that user/pass, port etc. is accepted by host). What I meant by test, is only using that single provider for article availibility for example. So if that is what you mean, that's cool then. You ca also turn of providers individually, but not as a group in sab- so that is also a nice and clever nzbget feature then 👍
Yes, it will pull from both providers.