Re: Simultaneous Downloads
Posted: 03 Oct 2020, 19:54
Hugbug,
There are quite a few different scenarios in which downloading from multiple nzbs would be greatly beneficial. Such as when you have multiple sources:
Source A: 5000 day retention (spotty completion rate), limited 10 mb/s, unlimited account
Source B: 1000 day retention, limited to 1000 mb/s, unlimited account
Source C: 5000 day retention (100% completion rate), limited to 1000 mb/s, block acount
Typically I would set source A and B as priority 0, and source C as priority 1.
Then if you have a queue as follows:
Item 1, age of 1500 days.
Item 2, age of 9 days.
The problem right now is that Nzbget will use source A to try and download item1 first, and is capped at the provider's limit of 10mb/s. Source B won't participate because the age of the file is outside of the provider's retention. Sabnzb would/does allow Source B to then begin download Item 2 while Source A and C continue to work on Item 1.
Also, less important is at the end of a particular file. Waiting for the last few articles to complete for Item 1 before beginning to work on Item2 will leave many connections idling even in a simple 1 source, 2 item scenario.
There are quite a few different scenarios in which downloading from multiple nzbs would be greatly beneficial. Such as when you have multiple sources:
Source A: 5000 day retention (spotty completion rate), limited 10 mb/s, unlimited account
Source B: 1000 day retention, limited to 1000 mb/s, unlimited account
Source C: 5000 day retention (100% completion rate), limited to 1000 mb/s, block acount
Typically I would set source A and B as priority 0, and source C as priority 1.
Then if you have a queue as follows:
Item 1, age of 1500 days.
Item 2, age of 9 days.
The problem right now is that Nzbget will use source A to try and download item1 first, and is capped at the provider's limit of 10mb/s. Source B won't participate because the age of the file is outside of the provider's retention. Sabnzb would/does allow Source B to then begin download Item 2 while Source A and C continue to work on Item 1.
Also, less important is at the end of a particular file. Waiting for the last few articles to complete for Item 1 before beginning to work on Item2 will leave many connections idling even in a simple 1 source, 2 item scenario.