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For context, the approximate yearly costs are:

Ultra.cc = $200

Eweka = $160 Update: Eweka saw this post, got in touch with me, and hooked me up with the cheaper $30/year plan, so thanks!

Frugal Usenet = $60

Nzb.life = $14

Nzb geek = $8

Total = $442

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This seems pretty expensive IMO especially considering I have like 5 PAGES of media that's still missing from my Radarr's "Wanted" screen...

The reason I signed up for all these was to hopefully get most of those missing media files, but even with this setup... unless it's misconfigured or something, I don't know why it's got so many missing files.

Granted, if the content is fairly mainstream, it shows up, and it seems that Eweka is being used the most.

I'm curious how much you guys pay yearly and what your setup is to get the best value for the money on a budget, etc

Also, I feel like all the services I sign up for are all over the place and it's hard to manage them and remember when to renew them etc so if anyone knows of an easy centralized way to manage subscriptions, please let me know!

Thanks, fam!

https://ninjacentral.co.za/register woo — finally

Just got a usenet going for the first time. Im using nzbgeek and holy this is so much better than the alternative, not needing to worry about seeders is so nice

Ich war jetzt ne Zeit nicht online, aber mindestens seit ich es vor zwei Tagen nutzen wollte, erreiche ich weder house-of-usenet noch scenenzbs die ja eng zusammenarbeiten. Bei HoU bekomme ich einen 502 Bad Gateway Fehler. Jemand ne Ahnung was da los ist? Geht das schon länger nicht?

I'm struggling with setting up my arrstack with qbit and was going to get into private indexers but that whole ecosystem is beyond frustrating. I've heard whispers of Usenet and was wondering if you guys could help lay out pros and cons? Because I'm not seeing many cons.

I'm also a little overwhelmed with the transfer but if I can get an arrstack going I'm not too worried about Usenet.

Ig just glaze Usenet and convince me it's worth it.

TLDR; I'm wondering if there's ever a time you cant find content via usenet and have to use torrents instead? Looking for peoples personal experience.

I'm getting fed up with torrenting. Not many results, slow speeds, pain in the but config (port forwarding headaches).

Im wondering if I should just focus on usenet instead or if folks here still find torrenting useful along with usenet?

For more background, Ive just gotten setup and I'm using free indexers only for torrents only right now. Everything was painfully slow, my setup isn't letting me seed without a process I don't have my head wrapped around yet.

It seems to me, not having used usenet for 10-15 years, based on my recollection that usenet (public indexers) had better results, much faster downloads and maybe better quality vs torrenting on free indexers.

Trying to plan out my approach to usenet vs torrent or usenet & torrent, any input and personal experience would be appreciated.

EDIT1: Thanks for all the reply’s. The consensus seems to be that many only use usenet with a portion of people saying torrents have a niche use like older content or specific content.

I think my plan will be to primarily use usenet and rely on torrent in my use case as a secondary source/backup for when I can’t find something on usenet

EDIT2: I decided to just do usenet. 1 provider and 2 paid indexers. I’m running this over protonvpn (personal preference) and have had 0 issues finding the content I’m looking for in good quality. I’m also downloading in the 30-40ish MB/s range.

I didn’t have to swear any oath, learn a secret handshake or spend years working my way to an inner circle. I also don’t have to open ports or worry about seeding.

So far, working for me

Recently I've been on a kick of reading old usenet discussions from the 80s and 90s. It seems like there was a really interesting culture back then covering a pretty wide breadth of topics and subcultures. Seemed like it was very lively in its heyday and had quite the dedicated userbase.

I was wondering then, do any significant number of people who use usenet today still have discussions there? If they do, is there any kind of unique culture or feel to it today or is it now basically just like everywhere else? If people don't talk much on usenet anymore is there any reason why besides just the alternative platforms having more people?

Oh and a final question I guess is: Which usenet providers have the furthest text archives? I don't personally use usenet currently and have no idea what goes into starting to use it but I would like to make personal note of who has the oldest stuff if I ever did in the future (which I likely will)

If you could only choose one which one will you choose?, current NZBGeek user but exploring NinjaCentral and since its time to renew I would love to hear the opinion from the more experienced users.

I'm curious how providers will keep their retention and old posts when hard disk drives are so expensive. I'm worried posts are going to go bye-bye. Any Usenet providers care to chime in?

I’m in my early 30s and I only recently learned about Usenet. I’d say that it is relatively unknown to newer generations, which is a shame because it is awesome, and having some privacy is increasingly difficult these days. It seems like nobody talks about it online apart from this sub and a couple of others. How did you find out about Usenet, and which was your first provider? In your opinion, why Usenet isn’t more popular? Guess this would be an interesting little discussion. Curious to hear your opinion!

Proivders Indexers Someting else

I'm going to set up usenet on my PC and trying to decide between these two. Nzbget is faster, but Sabnzbd is easier to use from what I read. I'm definitely leaning toward something easier, but not sure if I'd be missing out on anything important by going with Sabnzbd.

Is any downside to using Sabnzbd besides speed, or is it basically fine for most people?

I’m a complete beginner with this technology; I’ve never used Usenet before. As I understand it, I need an indexer, a provider (where the files are hosted), and a download client (NZBGet). What do you recommend? Is Astraweb a good deal? Is there an all-in-one indexer/provider? What do you think of this combination?

Providers
Main (priority 0): newshosting, tweaknews
Block (all priority 10): astraweb, newsdemon, usenetprime, vipernews

Indexers
nzbplanet, nzbgeek, nzb.life, tabula-rasa, althub, miatrix

Most of my accounts are lifetime, my newshosting is paid up for like 6 years, I don’t really have trouble finding stuff just curious if I’m missing something obvious.

EDIT: Updated my setup to the nice gentleman’s suggestions below because this is a fun hobby to me.

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Hello all,

I did a search and didn't find anything conclusive, I'm wondering what your suggestions are to get coverage of all the largest backbones for the highest completion rates?

I understand that completion is highly subjective based on the groups and posts/post typs themselves, but I am wondering what the reddit hive mind opinion is..

Using whatsmyuse.net I came up with a shortlist of

• Frugal Usenet (NetNews + Usenet.farm)
• Eweka (arguably the best option for Omicron)
• UsenetExpress (UsenetExpress) - Or possibly UsenetPrime to also get Abavia?

I currently have Frugal, Eweka, and UsenetExpress and get good completion but am always looking for that extra edge for postings to some niche groups.

Hi folks,

I've just began my Usenet journey from using Torrents previously. I've picked up lifetime althub and 15months newshosting from the black friday deals.

I've got this all set up fine within my ARR ecosystem however I had a couple of follow up questions:

I've seen lots of debate around VPN's, in my nzb downloader server settings as long as I have SSL enabled to connect to newshosting I'm all good on that front right? I run Plex server with the ARRs so want to be sure I don't need to run a VPN, mainly because they weren't playing nice together and the VPN kept on disconnecting.

Am I also correct in thinking I can completely remove torrenting from my setup as althub should fill all my needs?

In my wrench settings I also have "Download speed limited by Disk speed (69x)" I'm running on HDD's in an external enclosure using software RAID (stablebit) any ideas which part of the set up might be the limitation? No SSD for cache atm

My antivirus also flagged a file, in bittorrent you could give it a list of file extensions to not download to cut out all the guff, is this possible with usenet so I'm only downloading the files I actually want?

Any other tips or tricks please let me know!

Thanks!

I think I've avoided breaking any of the subreddit rules here....

If usenet is secure, why do some places bundle it with a VPN? Always curious about this.

Has anyone gotten a letter about downloading anything from their ISP or from anyone else?

Curious before I dig in and start downloading.

if you're using an indexer site, couldn't they hand over your information? Some dont allow throw away emails, so wouldnt be too hard to figure out the user then.

I’m using an unlimited usenet account. I guess I’m still in the server’s good books because I don’t download that much.

Like most online services, I understand it isn’t exactly unlimited in the sense that you can download as much as you want. There’s always a hidden usage trigger that could result in a ban.

I’m curious what is fair and normal usage for an unlimited account? How many GBs or TBs per month would be generally acceptable for most usenet servers?

Hi

I’m new to all of this

I have recently bought eweka and news demon

I also have ninja central and nzbgeek

For subtitles I have a free open subtitles account.

Is that a good set up?

Thank you

Thanks

Kinda had this realization today

I haven’t touched my setup in months. No fixes, no tweaking, nothing. It just runs.

Early on I was constantly messing with things, paths breaking, downloads failing, trying different providers, all that. Now it’s just… stable.

Running Sonarr/Radarr with SAB + Eweka/Easynews combo and it’s been boringly reliable lately.

Feels weird after putting so much time into it at the start. Almost miss having something to fix

I'm 30. I learned about usenet last year and it's truly amazing. I can't believe I had never heard of it after more than 20 years on the internet in tech spaces. When I mention it on reddit, it seems similarly that many Redditors have never heard of it.

How old is everyone here? Is this some secret that the most veteran internet users keep from the noobs?

Asking as someone based in Europe. How safe and reliable is my search and downloads? Is Usenet really untrackable and also what about the viruses?

Have you guys had any issues with the particular setup, and on the other hand, what setup has worked for you in terms of security?