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Can someone explain Usenet to a long-time torrent-er?
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this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
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It's better because you don't have to worry about ratios or finding torrents with seeders. You just download the media at whatever the maximum speed your connection can handle is. So you could, for example, download a 4gb episode for something 30 seconds after Sonarr checks for it.
As for the technical aspects, you don't have to worry too about it, because since you use Sonarr it will handle most of the work, just like it does with torrents. The only problem I've found is there's often not a lot of lower quality stuff on Usenet, so unless you tweak your Sonarr settings you're gonna end up downloading 40gb anime episodes, because that's the first thing Sonarr finds.
Once you play with the quality sliders it works really well. What indexers are you using? I use nzbgeek, nzb.su, and DS and there are plenty of sub 1080p files available.