Multi-provider failover1.x
- Survive provider outages and article misses.
- Respect block accounts and connection limits.
- Prefer providers in priority order (the configured drag order) when cascade routing is on.
- Add each provider under Settings → Usenet with an accurate Provider Connection Limit.
- Turn on Cascade routing if you want priority order (thinly-spared primaries can still yield to idle peers); leave it off to share one pool.
- Mark pure backups as Backup Only. The Overview Providers card labels them Backup.
- Set storage groups only for true same-upstream resellers.
- Optional: data caps and usage offsets when migrating mid-block.
- Run Auto-tune or benchmarks; consider NNTP pipelining.
How routing, circuit breakers, and storage groups behave: Multi-provider. All provider settings: Usenet settings.
Streaming priority
Section titled “Streaming priority”Under Settings → Streaming, Streaming Priority (vs Queue) sets how much of the connection budget playback gets versus queue downloads, so playback wins under load. See Streaming settings.