heres some astraweb hints i have to share (from experiance so far), this is for the budget $10 option, may be differant for other options.
Leech on as many connects as u can, as the more u use the more speed u seem to get (unlike some news servers).
If you start getting silly errors (NOT ON SERVER, etc) reduce the number of connects, i find dropping to 6 fixes it, this happens at peak times.
If doing a INCREMENTAL UPDATE (or FULL), you may also get strange errors, 6 connects seems to be best rather than 8.
On any errors, the file is probably there, just retry!
This may make it sound like astraweb is cr*p, its not, like anything its a case of learning to use it. Weve sacrificed in price so some small probs are to be expected. I have got everything ive tagged, everything ive wanted is complete too (so far), so i have no real gripes for the price.
hope this helps