I'm a pretty heavy torrent user, running a media server complete with sonarr/radarr for automatic downloads. I download a lot, and have multiple TBs of upload on various private trackers. I've been torrenting forever, but I've always wondered about usenet. Over and over on this, and other, forums I see people saying that usenet is way better - but why?
I understand what it is overall, but what makes it better than traditional torrenting? In my mind, it's always just seemed like a different means to the same end. I pay for a VPN and torrent for "free", or I pay for usenet access and download directly from there. As someone who's "snobby" around the quality of the stuff I torrent, does usenet provide an advantage there?
Usenet fans, I'd love to hear what makes you love it! I'm always open to trying new things, and if It really is better I'd love to know why! (Plus, maybe what providers/tools etc you recommend).
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.