Pat <Pat@nomail.com> wrote in news:53942813$0$63583$c3e8da3$40cb80c2
@news.astraweb.com:
> On Sun, 08 Jun 2014 07:11:22 GMT, "macnab" <me@mymail.com> wrote
>
>> I am/was using Giganews. Took out a subscription to Tweaknews
>> yesterday and so far have had 100% success downloding all the
>> "problem" files. It will be a while before I am up to date and can
>> identify individual problem episodes, where there are any.
>
> I got a Tweak account 4 months ago. Their completion has been very good.
> However their retention is only 1200 days, but Giganews should generally
> be OK beyond that.
>
>> As for
>> using a block account, I will have to switch from SABnzbd, as this
>> only asks the backup server if the main server actively says "I do not
>> have these files." Missing/bad blocks don't work.
>>
>>
>
> Did you try setting up Giganews as your main server and Tweak as the
> backup ?
>
>
>
Using Tweaknews as primary and no backup. I have done 16 hours downloading
without needing a single par2 file.
All the files broke between Giganews and me. But 100% from Tweaknews. Don't
know why.
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