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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So, i want to give a try to usenet world.

I have the *Arr setup with torrents now, and works great, but why not experiment a bit further?

So many questions...

First of all: will i find italian contents? Or its all US/English stuff?

I got an account on NZBFind, bit thats only an indexer right? I need also to find an access provider to usenet? If so, which access provider do you recomend? I want somewhere i can test for a few weeks or a month or so before committing, so no credit card upfront.

Update: trough techradar got an offer on newshosting for 5.99/mo with 3 monts free. Paid with PayPal then cancelled the recurrent immediately (so paid 0 so far). But at the moment not yet sure i made it working in my *Arr setup properly.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

90% of my collection came from torrents, but I got tired of receiving copyright claims. (no vpn)

Switched to usenet mostly for that, but the other thing is the speed; torrents are typically 1-2mbps maybe 3 if you're lucky and if you're not it can take days to complete. Usenet gives me a consistent 60mbps always, limited by my write speed. If it's not ready to watch within 20min of being requested, it's because it couldn't be found.

The day I switched from 17odd torrent indexers to a single usenet indexer, I triggered a mass search through radarr+sonarr and grabbed 2.3tb of media they had failed to find previously with torrents, completed downloading in under 36hrs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

torrents are typically 1-2mbps maybe 3 if you’re lucky and if you’re not it can take days to complete

That's not my experience at all, I'm usually downloading at around 200-350Mbps (can't do more that's the limit of my connection) on TV shows etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've occasionally run into higher rate torrents like that, but they were few and far between in the 7ish years I ran my media server on torrents.

Usenet though, the speed is always consistent regardless of the content.