Use night - it’s by far the cheapest I’ve found (20 euro for a year). Gives you fast speeds at night and throttles during the day. Not an issue for me.
yeah, I’ve been seeing how fucked up the minimum wage and salaries in general are over there. like, everything is affected by inflation BUT the salaries/wages? fucking joke.
Is it just me or is usenet a bit expensive? One would need to pay for both an indexer and a provider. Regular public trackers have majority of the content for, well, free. Is obscure stuff on Usenet easier to find?
i wouldnt waste my time with torrents now. it is one of those things hard to explain but once you make the jump for yourself you will just know and wish you did it long ago. if you are all in for under a $100 per year, i dont consider that expensive at all.
Agree! I turned on the arr/nzbget/nzbhydra/Emby docker stack several years ago and it just works. I add content from my phone and it’s downloaded and organized in Emby within 10 minutes. I started with several providers and indexers at first and whittled it down to Eweka (Omicron)/Newsdemon (Usenetexpress) for providers and Geek/Drunkenslug/althub for indexers.
It’s just you. I get easynews for $45 a year on their valentine’s plan, includes unlimited nntp, unlimited web (which is really useful given the search) and a free VPN to boot. Bargain of the century
Not having to worry about seeders/leeches, ratios, using a VPN, or waiting to download is worth the $6 for everything I pay per month. I can get a 10gb movie in a matter of a few minutes. Once you experience Usenet for yourself, it’s really hard to go back to mucking about with torrents. Feels like the dark ages.
As for obscure stuff, yeah, you can still download anything on the server at full speed, no matter how old it is. Most servers have 3-5000 days retention. Never had any trouble finding a TV show, and the oldest I’ve personally downloaded is a 10 year old show, which of course I downloaded as fast as my connection could handle. No searching for a torrent that’s not dead, as long as it’s still there, it downloads. No wait, no hassle, just click a button in Sonarr/Radarr and and 30 seconds later I’m watching it.
You can get plenty of older shows on Usenet it’s not like you won’t find something like Star Trek from the 60’s. Hell I recently started downloading V from 1984 so…
Maybe. But the 5000 day retention most servers have is since upload. It doesn’t relate to how old the series or movie in question is. If you search for a title, you’re almost certainly going to find a few dozen or so versions of that title in various definitions and age. For example, just for kicks, I searched for episodes of the Andy Griffith show, and the oldest files I found were 3700 days old. The series is a bit older than that, of course.
I’ve been looking at eweka since mullvad removed port forwarding but i now have 1000/400 internet and like seeding so vpn recommendations are welcome (and indexers)
When I first tried Usenet, I wanted something cheap so I could see if it was right for me. I haven’t bothered to change since, so I use Frugal Usenet and Geek to index. Both work quite well for everything I’ve tried except ebooks.
I’m probably about average when it comes to tech stuff. I always feel dumb when I start looking into getting started with usenet, then get intimidated and quit researching. My torrent + vpn has failed me a couple of times in the past three years. So I really just need to make the leap. Just finding this community and reading through some of the posts has given me an initiative boost.
This comment is me, last year. Its really not that hard don’t let it intimidate you! All you really need is 3 things:
Download Client. Usenet has file size limits, so files are broken into zip archives. A download client such as SABnzbd will automatically unpack for you.
Usenet provider. Such as Eweka (Based in Europe) or Newshosting. This will cost about 5-10 bucks a month.
Usenet indexer. Indexer is used for searching usenet. Think pirate bay. I personally use https://nzbgeek.info. NZB geek costs 1 dollar a month or 80 for a lifetime membership.
Yeah usenet costs money, but god damn its such a premium experience. Every single download is going to cap out your connection, never wait for seeds again.
Do you use a vpn with usenet? Is it even necessary as you aren’t hosting like with torrents?
Have you found it easier to find less popular titles/things that there just doesn’t seem to be seeded torrents for?
I recently added Ombi to my setup, allowing my users to request media; now I’m getting more and more requests for media I just haven’t been able to find.
Do you use a vpn with usenet? Is it even necessary as you aren’t hosting like with torrents?
I don’t use a vpn because it would really slow down the speed and everything is downloading via https anyway so its encrypted. Your ISP will see you hitting usenet servers, but thats all. Milage may vary with how tolerate your ISP is towards this.
Have you found it easier to find less popular titles/things that there just doesn’t seem to be seeded torrents for?
Absolutely. The insane thing about usenet is retention. If it was uploaded 10 years ago to usenet, its still there. Available at max speed. No more dead torrents. I was in the same boat with users requesting stuff I couldn’t find, with usenet its way way better.
Thanks for the info. Just finished setting it all up; trigged a mass search for everything that was missing and now I’ve got a good 200+gb to download :D
I’m pretty damn impressed with the speed. Pushing 50 almost 60mb/s where as torrents usually top out around 10-15 if I’m lucky, usually closer to 1 or 2.
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I use Eweka/usenetprime and use Nzbplanet/NzbGeek these days.
Use night - it’s by far the cheapest I’ve found (20 euro for a year). Gives you fast speeds at night and throttles during the day. Not an issue for me.
I think my provider is newsgroup direct and my indexer is nzbgeek
Newsgroup.ninja, because I support fellow ninjas and pirates.
Have a backup block on Usenet Farm which I’ve basically never needed.
lol imagine paying for pirating
lol imagine being so poor you can’t afford 10 dollars a month
10 dollars a month is a big sum of money in my country.
dollar has gone to shit in the US too. saving $5/month doesnt do crap for my finances when cheapest houses around here are still above $2.5M
yeah, I’ve been seeing how fucked up the minimum wage and salaries in general are over there. like, everything is affected by inflation BUT the salaries/wages? fucking joke.
lol and now imagine you can use usenet for free
Broken packages everywhere
eh, i don’t want to juggle free trials
who speaking about free trials? clearly you dont pirate enough to get things for free (speaking about usenet)
Mind pointing us in which direction to go? Usenet is new for many of us.
Frugal Usenet, I did the one that gets you the block storage then ended up adding more block storage after that ran up
@radau @SomeBoyo I second this. Best bang for your buck on omicron backbone with a usenet.farm backup backbone. Take crypto payments too:
https://billing.frugalusenet.com/agreement/crypto
Usenetbucket
The one to use the net 😎
Is it just me or is usenet a bit expensive? One would need to pay for both an indexer and a provider. Regular public trackers have majority of the content for, well, free. Is obscure stuff on Usenet easier to find?
i wouldnt waste my time with torrents now. it is one of those things hard to explain but once you make the jump for yourself you will just know and wish you did it long ago. if you are all in for under a $100 per year, i dont consider that expensive at all.
that’s $100 too much for me
Agree! I turned on the arr/nzbget/nzbhydra/Emby docker stack several years ago and it just works. I add content from my phone and it’s downloaded and organized in Emby within 10 minutes. I started with several providers and indexers at first and whittled it down to Eweka (Omicron)/Newsdemon (Usenetexpress) for providers and Geek/Drunkenslug/althub for indexers.
how good is althub? seems like they are focused on ebooks are they good for other media
It’s my go to for ebooks, but with tv and movies it only pulls ~5% in NZBHydra stats vs the 65% of DS.
It’s just you. I get easynews for $45 a year on their valentine’s plan, includes unlimited nntp, unlimited web (which is really useful given the search) and a free VPN to boot. Bargain of the century
It’s easynews all in one? Just pay and go?
It can be. You can use easynews without a nzb provider if you want, but it obvs works better with one!
I’ve been a happy customer for nearly two decades!
Not having to worry about seeders/leeches, ratios, using a VPN, or waiting to download is worth the $6 for everything I pay per month. I can get a 10gb movie in a matter of a few minutes. Once you experience Usenet for yourself, it’s really hard to go back to mucking about with torrents. Feels like the dark ages.
As for obscure stuff, yeah, you can still download anything on the server at full speed, no matter how old it is. Most servers have 3-5000 days retention. Never had any trouble finding a TV show, and the oldest I’ve personally downloaded is a 10 year old show, which of course I downloaded as fast as my connection could handle. No searching for a torrent that’s not dead, as long as it’s still there, it downloads. No wait, no hassle, just click a button in Sonarr/Radarr and and 30 seconds later I’m watching it.
Sounds like usenet isn’t something for me then… I think 90% of our movie/tv library is more than 10 years old
You can get plenty of older shows on Usenet it’s not like you won’t find something like Star Trek from the 60’s. Hell I recently started downloading V from 1984 so…
Maybe. But the 5000 day retention most servers have is since upload. It doesn’t relate to how old the series or movie in question is. If you search for a title, you’re almost certainly going to find a few dozen or so versions of that title in various definitions and age. For example, just for kicks, I searched for episodes of the Andy Griffith show, and the oldest files I found were 3700 days old. The series is a bit older than that, of course.
GigaNews for my procvider, NZBGeek and PlanetNZB for indexers.
I’ve been looking at eweka since mullvad removed port forwarding but i now have 1000/400 internet and like seeding so vpn recommendations are welcome (and indexers)
No VPN necessary. Eweka and Geek is a great combination.
Fastusenet.org
Usenight
Provider: Eweka Indexer: Geek
Same here. Would recommend both!
When I first tried Usenet, I wanted something cheap so I could see if it was right for me. I haven’t bothered to change since, so I use Frugal Usenet and Geek to index. Both work quite well for everything I’ve tried except ebooks.
#bookz on undernet is great
I’m probably about average when it comes to tech stuff. I always feel dumb when I start looking into getting started with usenet, then get intimidated and quit researching. My torrent + vpn has failed me a couple of times in the past three years. So I really just need to make the leap. Just finding this community and reading through some of the posts has given me an initiative boost.
This comment is me, last year. Its really not that hard don’t let it intimidate you! All you really need is 3 things:
Yeah usenet costs money, but god damn its such a premium experience. Every single download is going to cap out your connection, never wait for seeds again.
Do you use a vpn with usenet? Is it even necessary as you aren’t hosting like with torrents?
Have you found it easier to find less popular titles/things that there just doesn’t seem to be seeded torrents for?
I recently added Ombi to my setup, allowing my users to request media; now I’m getting more and more requests for media I just haven’t been able to find.
I don’t use a vpn because it would really slow down the speed and everything is downloading via https anyway so its encrypted. Your ISP will see you hitting usenet servers, but thats all. Milage may vary with how tolerate your ISP is towards this.
Absolutely. The insane thing about usenet is retention. If it was uploaded 10 years ago to usenet, its still there. Available at max speed. No more dead torrents. I was in the same boat with users requesting stuff I couldn’t find, with usenet its way way better.
Thanks for the info. Just finished setting it all up; trigged a mass search for everything that was missing and now I’ve got a good 200+gb to download :D
I’m pretty damn impressed with the speed. Pushing 50 almost 60mb/s where as torrents usually top out around 10-15 if I’m lucky, usually closer to 1 or 2.
This is great. Thank you very much! I found a couple of “how to” elsewhere but they are so long and go into details I don’t need right now.