6.3B - still a problem using Astraweb w Giganews

[Arbie]

Under WinXP Pro. Problems continue (now with NBP 6.30B2 b1695) where downloads stall on Astraweb (master server) when the files are not found on GN (slave & fill server). Anyway, if I download the problem RAR parts from Astraweb using Grabit, all goes well. NBP won't continue with or retry these parts no matter what.

Thx

Arbie

[Quade]

6.3B2 does do retries and you can set how many it does too. So, I'm not completely clear what you mean.

[Arbie]

I didn't mean to refer to the settable retry count, sorry. What I meant was that after a stall I can't get it to keep trying / proceed. Sometimes, shutting it down and restarting will get it to continue for a while, then it stalls again.

Even when there are no stalls or I get through them, here are some typical symptoms of an AW=master / GN= slave-fill issue: A download is attempted. Most of it is found on Astraweb but almost every part needs some fills; these are found on Giganews. I can see this happening from the two different server colors appearing in the download bars (when I expand the package to see its individual parts). Finally, all parts show complete eg 50,829KB/50,829KB. However, it then seems like the fills from GN disappear. The spots representing them in the download bars all turn white briefly. Then, sure enough, all the parts where fills were needed turn out to be broken when I run Quickpar. The same thing happens if I let NBP run Autopar, but then I can's see what's happening so well. Often there are not enough PARs to repair the whole thing.

This just happened on another download tonight.

[Quade]

The spots representing them in the download bars all turn white briefly.

Turning back white means they're being retried. What then? Do they turn a server color or turn red? What happens if you disable AW and just use Giga for the problem files? You might want to delete the broken ones from disk before you try this.