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Hello
Is there a possibility to make SABNZBD+ more flexible with multiple news servers by allowing the download queue to be handled seperately for all news servers.
What i mean can be beter explaned by an example:
I have two newsservers one with 6MB/s download 300+ days retension and a 4MB/s download 20 days retension.
my SABNZBD+ queue contains files between 300 days old till 2 days old it is organized from old to new.
What SABNZBD+ now does is start downloading the first file and because of its age the news server with 20days retension does not do anyting and my download speed is 6MB/s.
if now the news server with the small retension time would go on with the next file and so on til it reaches the files which it can download my download speed would be 10MB/s

I think this will be hard to program but it would help me very much.

This is not something that's necessarliy  generally useful.
Your assumption is that one server will not reach maximum bandwidth.
This is often not true. Especially the expensive trackers with long retentions time are often very fast too.

For release 0.6.0 we are working on a retention time setting per server,
so that a short retention time server isn't used when it cannot have the articles.
This should speed up things, because SABnzbd doesn't have to wait for the
server to say it doesn't have articles.
Maybe later that can be extended to more parellelism, although we are reluctant to
implement very complex methods, just to gain some speed in limited use cases.

shypike wrote: This is not something that's necessarliy  generally useful.
Your assumption is that one server will not reach maximum bandwidth.
This is often not true. Especially the expensive trackers with long retentions time are often very fast too.

For release 0.6.0 we are working on a retention time setting per server,
so that a short retention time server isn't used when it cannot have the articles.
This should speed up things, because SABnzbd doesn't have to wait for the
server to say it doesn't have articles.
Maybe later that can be extended to more parellelism, although we are reluctant to
implement very complex methods, just to gain some speed in limited use cases.

Thanks for your response,
It is not that I asume that one server wil not reach maximum bandwidth I just don't pay more than for 6MB/s download speed on that one news server.
I can imagine that it is difficult to implement and the use is limited.