The nice part about Usenet is it’s basically full saturation of your internet line, so if you have a gigabit line, it will come as close as possible to running downloads at that speed. Frugal Usenet is $60 for their annual account, in my opinion it’s worth it just for speed alone. I pay for Usenet ninja as well as a secondary account for failed downloads.
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gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months agoI keep seeing Usenet mentioned for downloading media, but I’ve never tried it; I’ve stuck with torrents because they’re free and what I’m familiar with. Is paying for Usenet access worth it, is it more straightforward to use with the *arr stack, is there more content available?
Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
triptrapper@lemmy.world 6 months ago
IMO Usenet is worth the cost. It’s a different process than torrenting, with some extra steps, but once you wrap your head around it it’s fairly simple. Depending on the indexer you use, Usenet can be much better organized and easier to find what you’re looking for.
gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
Thanks for the info, I appreciate it!