Back in my younger days I was a heavy into torrents but stopped cold turkey when I got a nice letter in the mail from my ISP. This had to be about 18 years ago. I recently stepped back into the world of torrents after looking at my yearly spend for streaming services. I had enough. I cancelled Prime, Hulu, Netflix, Disney+, Paramount+, all of it. I left no service standing (minus Max which I get for free).
Torrenting is great but I was ready to pay to get better ratios and access to private trackers and I stumbled on a post just asking someone else "if you're willing to pay for a seed box, why not just dive into the usenet world?" I think this was the best question asked.
The last 24 hours have been spectacular. I jumped into the deep end and grabbed me a provider (Eweka), an indexer (NZBGeek), and a downloader. I just recently (this morning) grabbed the arr softwares to help with automation.
In the last 24 hours, I've downloaded 553.8 GB and I'm pretty happy about this new setup!
What are other recommendations you all may have for a newbie? Should I add another indexer? Seems that the private ones like DS are highly sought after. Should I get another provider with a different backbone like UsenetExpress? What can make my life even easier?
Thanks everyone who's spent time building this sub and providing a wealth of knowledge to the newer folks.