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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So, i want to give a try to usenet world.

I have the *Arr setup with torrents now, and works great, but why not experiment a bit further?

So many questions...

First of all: will i find italian contents? Or its all US/English stuff?

I got an account on NZBFind, bit thats only an indexer right? I need also to find an access provider to usenet? If so, which access provider do you recomend? I want somewhere i can test for a few weeks or a month or so before committing, so no credit card upfront.

Update: trough techradar got an offer on newshosting for 5.99/mo with 3 monts free. Paid with PayPal then cancelled the recurrent immediately (so paid 0 so far). But at the moment not yet sure i made it working in my *Arr setup properly.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i dont think any service is going to give you free weeks or a month with no strings attached. if they did everybody would use them and not pay. you can just buy 1 unlimited month of frugal usenet for 5 bucks (not a subscription) and call it good.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Keep an eye on black friday deals, they are usually the best around. You may get lifetime deals on the cheap from indexers, cheap blocks/subs from server providers. It's a steep, but rewarding learning curve. Can't help you with Italian content though.

[+] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] Vendetta9076 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nzbgeek, nzbplanet, dognzb and Drunken Slug are the best indexers in my experience. Really only need 1 or 2 of these.

Providers are both trickier and simpler. most are just resellers and theres really only 2 backbones for the providers. There's a diagram somewhere of all of the different providers and which backbone they come off of. I got NZB ninja a decade ago cuz it was the cheapest at the time but really any of them will do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There's more than 2.

Here's a map:

[–] Vendetta9076 1 points 10 months ago

Sure looks like it. Either more have spun up in the last decade or I missed that those existed. Thanks for the map.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

that map is a bit out of date but also doesnt show all the sellers. this might show things better, https://whatsmyuse.net/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I don’t think you’ll find many providers that offer free trials, although I stand to be corrected. But some will accept crypto so if you don’t want to give your credit card details you could try that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I use Astraweb because I can buy 1000GB at a time that doesn't expire so I avoid the monthly fees. Works well for me as I don't do a high volume and it removes any feeling of pressure to use it more than I need.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Italian content? Some, but not much. Way less that torrents.

I speak from experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I use eweka.nl & nzbplanet, works fine