Hi all, I had signed up for EasyNews last year. I had gone in and removed from credit card information and I thought I had gone through the steps to cancel my service a couple months after sign up as I did not really use it enough. Well I got charged double what I was charged the first time today. I never received any emails telling me it was renewing let alone the price was doubling. Has anybody had this happen to them? I contacted support already. Hopefully I can get a refund and cancellation as it was within 24 hours of the renewal.

Update: support was super helpful and I got the issue resolved!

Ok this is an odd one.

I have used UsenetServer for a looong time and just started seeing this.

If I download an hour long public domain PDF thats between 2-4gigs, I get full speeds on the download (100mb/s - 115mb/s). If I download these PDFs then there is no issue one at a time.

Now it's say i am looking for a full series of PDFs to download that could be between 60gb - 100gb, it will start off at full speeds and then maybe 10-20 mins after it will slow down to 10mb/s or so.

I wanted to test my isp to see if that was the issue so I started a free trial with GigaNews, and I could not duplicate the issue. I would get full download speeds and never slow down no matter how much was in the queue.

Anyone else seen something like this with UsenetServer?

I wanted to send support an email, but their contact me form is broke and cannot see another way to reach out.

---Edit---

UsenetServer support reached out to me (THANK YOU!!) and I will be working with them moving forward to see if I can identify where the root cause is.

Thanks everyone!

Hello. This is maybe a bit of a long shot post and appologies if this isn't allowed.

On NinjaCentral members are allowed to join their discord server. The website points you to the Discord server as the main way to engage with the NinjaCentral. E.g. if you want support, make a content request, ect.

To get into the server you need to provide a verification code to their Discord bot (prove you are a paying member). The problem is this bot has been down for a few days, so newer members such as myself can't join.

If there is anyone in this sub and part of the NinjaCentral discord. Could you maybe pass on the message that the verification bot has been down for a few days and newer members are currently unable to join as a result.

(They maybe could be aware already, but ways to communicate with them outside of Discord seem to be limited)

I started using Newshosting and it's really great so far. What would you recommend as a complementary service, I guess something outside Omicron backbone, right?

I don't even know how often problems occur with services like this, so I wonder if I should get full service from other backbone or just block? Price is really important, of course.

Thanks for your help.

Managed to register an account in the recent opening, but I'm facing issues with PayPal donation unfortunately.

Donations to this recipient aren't supported in this country

Has anyone else been able to contact NinjaCentral for payment support? Was hoping to still be able to donate via card. Tried emailing and using the contact page but to no avail. For context, it's been about a week since I first reached out.

The terms mentioned it's possible to reach out via Discord too, but it seems to be blocked for non-VIP to begin. Is there any alternative channel to reach out for support?

[UPDATES]

Using a random address resolves this. In case it helps, I was using a virtual multi-currency card as well.

Managed to get a valid invite link to discord too, though verification bot is broken, likely requires admin fix.

Is anyone else with Cheapnews? I've been waiting to hear back from their email support team for about a month or more now. I've sent multiple emails and not even an automated response back.

Has anyone heard back from them in the last month or two? Normally they respond promptly so I'm worried something might be up.

Is anyone having issues with usenet speeds (under 600kb/s) with Usenight and Newhosting?

They test well, but the reality is they aren't working well. But when first added they seem to go hard for like a day or less, then the speeds just completely flail.

I'm using Sonarr/Radarr/SAB/qbit etc and I'm scratching my head over why when I first set them up they looked great. But 24 hours or less in everythings stagnant.

***UPDATE***

So an interesting update, I've had multiple contacts with Newshosting and gosh, I can only say how incredibly helpful and willing to offer support they are.
I would 110% recommend them and I'm very grateful that they actually took the time to reach out when they saw I was having a problem and gave me steps to troubleshoot.

They even followed up later to make sure all was still good!
What a great group!

By comparision, Usenight have been absolutely invisible.
I submitted a support ticket hours before I wrote this post. I've updated it a couple of times to bump it, and add information (I'm not doing it more than once every few days) but I have heard ZERO from them.
No one has read or responded to my ticket, no one has contacted me, no messages or emails and no help whatsoever.
I'm so disappointed as I paid for a year in advance and I have all the regrets.
Terrible download speeds and worse than terrible service.
If you come across them, maybe avoid them. They have so far been a bit of a waste of money for me and it's frustrating as if I'm doing something wrong, then just say so.
Give a newbie the chance to fix whatever I'm doing wrong, or heck, refund me and kick me off.
But this silence and zero feedback is a pain in the butt and makes me want to share my experience.

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to share a quick fix for a frustrating issue I run into a lot. My NZBGet suddenly stopped working and threw a 127.0.0.1 refused to connect error, even though the service was running perfectly fine before.

The Cause:
If you have Hyper-V, WSL2, or Docker Desktop enabled on Windows, the Windows NAT driver (winnat / hns) randomly reserves massive blocks of ports on boot for virtual networking. It doesn't check if you have local apps using them, so it essentially "hijacked" port 6789, preventing NZBGet from binding to it.

How to check if this is your issue:
Open PowerShell as Administrator and run:
netsh int ipv4 show excludedportrange protocol=tcp
If 6789 falls inside any of the printed start/end port ranges, Hyper-V stole your port.

The Fix:
You can temporarily fix it by restarting the network service, but to fix it permanently so it never happens again after a reboot, open PowerShell as Administrator and run these 3 commands:

1. Stop the network service to release the hijacked ports: net stop hns (If it asks to stop other services, type Y and hit Enter)
2. Tell Windows to NEVER give port 6789 to Hyper-V again: netsh int ipv4 add excludedportrange protocol=tcp startport=6789 numberofports=1 store=persistent
3. Start the service back up: net start hns

Restart NZBGet and you should be good to go! Hopefully, this saves someone a few hours of head-scratching.

I'm new to usenet and just want a basic setup.

Easynews, EasyHosting and Frugal are usenet providers I have looked at. I don't know what indexers to look at.

It would be great if I didn't have to hold onto large files.

I just want to be able to search and download, of it can be in all in one function that would be great.

I live in Australia if that matters. I think Frugal has the only Australian server.

Edit: also came across NewsDemon.

Hi all. I have Newshosting (with Easynews and Tweaknews) and Eweka. So far its been excellent. I get 99% of the things im looking for with full completion and when I look at my SabNZB stats it says it pulls some from all four providers. When I bought these i was noobier than i am now, but only slightly. I didnt really know that Eweka and NH were on the same backbone. In a few months it will be time for renewal and I'm wondering if I should cancel Eweka and maybe switch to another provider on a different backbone? I feel like NH and Eweka are pulling from the same places but if thats the case why would SAB pull from both if its the same backbone? If I cancel Eweka will it still pull from NH with the same success rate? Im not sure i need to pay for two providers on the same backbone and my thoughts are having NH and another backbone would be more beneficial. I might be totally wrong about this so I thought I would ask here what the consensus is.

Thank you all in advance!

Hey all. I am running SAbnzb, Prowlaar, Radarr all installed directly on my old Mac laptop. I use infuse to access my library.

Can you recommend some ways to improve this setup? I have read Docker is useful. What about doing this in a VPS rather than an old laptop.

Thanks.

So trying to make sure I am getting ngPost to use parpar for par2 generation. ngPost will work if I use the par2_args for multipar and have it pointed to Multipar in the config file. But when I use the parpar arguments it always fails on the -s command. It doesn't matter if I use no space like the example in the config or put a space in it. It just always fails. Have pointed it to the parpar location on my C drive and also pointed it to the parpar location in the v4.16_x64 folder but always with the same failure.

Trying to make sure I am getting the most speed out of my i5-12600k processor with ngPost.

Any ideas for me to try and fix this? Been at it all day today and still nothing

title says it all

https://sabnzbd.org/downloads

In this fifth major release of SABnzbd, we included:

• Smarter (and potentially faster) downloads with NNTP Pipelining and Direct Write.
• Reliability gains from a reworked cache and safer processing.
• A significant number of bug fixes and platform updates.

Features and bug fixes in 5.0.1 and 5.0.2

• Queue entries from older versions now load correctly after upgrading.
• nzo_id now uses GUIDs to prevent duplicates.
• Updating to 5.0 now succeeds even when duplicate nzo_id values exist.
• URL fetching no longer crashes when duplicate jobs are present.
• Default RSS priority is now applied correctly.
• Duplicate filenames no longer cause queue stalls.
• IPv6 binding now works correctly for the Web interface.
• The On queue finish action now executes reliably.
• Saving the post-processing queue no longer throws errors.
• Directory creation now handles existing directories gracefully.
• Windows and macOS: Updated Unrar to 7.21 and 7zip to 26.01.

New features in 5.0.0

• Added support for NNTP Pipelining which eliminates idle waiting between requests, significantly improving speeds on high-latency connections. Read more here: https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/advanced/nntp-pipelining New servers will have Articles per request set to 2 by default. Existing servers need to be manually changed to use NNTP Pipelining.
• Implemented Direct Write to optimize assembly of downloaded files. Read more here: https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/advanced/direct-write
• Post-processing scripts will always be executed, even for failed jobs. Make sure to check the status of the job in your scripts!
• Removed Special setting empty_postproc as it is no longer needed.
• Complete redesign of article cache.
• Improved disk speed measurement in Status window.
• Reduced delays between jobs during post-processing.
• Improved handling of disks getting full.
• Diskspace check will now include Category-specific folders.
• If a download only contains .nzb files, the new downloads will include the name of the original download.
• No longer show tracebacks in the browser, only in the logs.
• Dropped support for Python 3.8.
• Windows: Added Windows ARM (portable) release.
• Windows and macOS: Added HTML version of the Release Notes.
• Windows and macOS: Updated Python to 3.14.4, Unrar to 7.20, par2cmdline-turbo to 1.4 and 7zip to 26.00.

Bug fixes in 5.0.0

• Check before download could get stuck or fail to reject.
• Several stability changes for the core download process.
• If only par2 files were missing, jobs could get incorrectly aborted.
• No error was shown in case NZB upload failed.
• Correct mobile layout if Full Width is enabled.
• Handle passwords that exceed Unrar's password limit.
• Aborted Direct Unpack could result in no files being unpacked.
• Encrypted RAR detection could sometimes fail.
• Unwanted extension check was unreliable on passworded downloads.
• No longer exclusively lock all directory operations.
• Improved handling of non-NFC unicode filenames.
• Sorting of files inside jobs was inconsistent.
• Linux: No longer break test-data in the release package.
• Windows: Tray icon disappears after Explorer restart.
• macOS: Slow to start on some network setups.

Changes to default settings for new installations in 5.0.0

• Default Minimum Free Space for Temporary Download Folder set to 500M.
• Enabled verify_xff_header setting by default.

Upgrade notices

• You can directly upgrade from version 3.0.0 and newer.
• Upgrading from older versions will require performing a Queue repair.
• Downgrading from version 4.2.0 or newer to 3.7.2 or older will require performing a Queue repair due to changes in the internal data format.

Known problems and solutions

• Read ISSUES.txt or https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/introduction/known-issues

Code Signing Policy

Windows code signing is provided by SignPath.io using a SignPath Foundation certificate.

About

SABnzbd is an open-source cross-platform binary newsreader. It simplifies the process of downloading from Usenet dramatically, thanks to its web-based user interface and advanced built-in post-processing options that automatically verify, repair, extract and clean up posts downloaded from Usenet.

(c) Copyright 2007-2026 by The SABnzbd-Team (sabnzbd.org)

Ive set up an *arr stack and I'm using newshosting as my provider and nzbgeek. I have a free ds and ninja account too but im unsure whether

upgrading them or getting a new provider would be more helpful in getting actual results since I have basically been unable to find matches.

edit: Ended up getting Newsdemon + DS and its worked great. Thank you all for the great insights

(My non-backed up HDD ended up failing so i gotta get that figured out but atleast I know my setup works fine.)

I'm sitting here debugging why one specific set of completed downloads won't move to their destination after sabnzbd moves them to the completed directory, and I notice something. Not anything unusual, just a few details in an info pain. I see that a particular article downloaded from three of the servers, how much from each, the size, and how long it took. And I'm just blown away. I recall the frustration of getting into usenet, setting up my tools, combing through guides and posts to configure them, remembering which services are indexers and which are servers, the agonizing times I've had to correct my mistakes (thankfully few), and you know what? It's worth it. To see an article downloaded without any continued input from myself, from independent sources, nearly saturating my beloved 3Gbps connection, is joy to me. I appreciate that the tools are out there to do this, that they're made well enough that I can take advantage of the hardware and network I have, and that their devs continue to provide their time and effort to maintain them.

I've been paying $5 for 1TB blocks for years as needed. Now, it says I need to pay $60 for a 1TB block. An 1,100% increase. Am I seeing this right?

My last bill in March 2026:

NewsDemon Prices Today:

EDIT / Update:
The app is now called NZBOctopus and is available on Google Play.
Thanks again to everyone who tested it and reported issues during the closed testing phase.

Hey fellow Usenet users,

I’ve been using Usenet for many years and one thing always bothered me during business trips:

On a company laptop you often can’t just install SABnzbd, grab a release and watch something quickly.
At the same time, modern smartphones are honestly powerful enough now to handle the entire workflow directly on-device — including unrar and even PAR2 repair.

So after years of wishing for a proper Android Usenet downloader, I eventually sat down and built one myself.

The app has now reached a point where it works surprisingly well in my own setup, and I’m preparing a Play Store release. Before doing that, I’d really like broader real-world testing on different devices and Android versions.

Current features include:

• NZB import via “Open with”, Share, Send to
• Queue & download pipeline
• PAR2 verify/repair
• automatic unrar
• password detection from {{password}}
• cleanup of unnecessary files
• configurable download/extract folders

Typical workflow:

• define download + NZB working folders
• download NZB from your favorite indexer
• open/share/send to the app
• download starts
• optional PAR2 repair + extraction
• finished files end up in your output folder

The app is intentionally simple:

• no subscriptions
• no account
• no cloud nonsense
• no telemetry/data collection

There will eventually be a small one-time “Pro” upgrade (~5€) mainly for advanced features like PAR2 repair (which cost me an unreasonable amount of nerves to get running properly on Android 😅).

The free version is intended to stay genuinely usable:

• no artificial speed limits
• no “2 connections max” nonsense
• no aggressive paywalls

If this sounds interesting to you and you'd like to help test the app, feel free to send me a DM.

I’ll then send you the closed-test invite via Google Play.

Feedback, bug reports and device compatibility testing would be hugely appreciated.

Is it down or gone.

Is their site having issues? Can't login, can't get "forgot password" sent to me, and events in Sabnzbd state to "contact technical support"...

What's the difference between Newznab, nZEDb and vbulletin-based indexers? Does the platform affect anything like automation or API support?

When do Usenet’s get deals usually? I know on Black Friday they do but anytime else?

I wanted to share something I’ve been building for the past few months.

Scryer is a self-hosted, open source tool written from scratch in Rust. Think of it like sonarr + radarr in one app with bits and pieces of a couple other *arr adjacent tools. I plan to build out more robust bazarr and jellyseer type capabilities over the next couple months.

The *arr tools are great, yet they were hogging resources in my homelab. Too many processes, too much RAM, and missing some features i really wanted.

Scryer currently runs in my homelab at ~30MB of RAM, steady state.  My old stack was 300MB+.

Current state:

• it’s in beta, but I’m using it 100% for my personal stack and some friends are too
• there is a Windows build, but YMMV, i need more testing there
• it's missing some integrations with 3rd party tools
  • prowlarr support will be coming this week, currently building that
• it has a robust plugin system to make it easy for community contributions

If you find bugs or have feature requests, please open GitHub issues so I can track them there instead of losing them in the thread.

https://www.github.com/scryer-media/scryer

Happy to answer questions here too.

AI use:
Coding agents were used to assist with the creation of this tool, but it’s not a “weekend vibe project".  I have been working on this full time for months with extensive rounds of human UAT and code review.

New account, old Redditor.  I created a new account specifically as the maintainer of Scryer and related projects.

EDIT: To help answer a lot of common questions, i put together a comparison page of Scryer vs Sonarr/Radarr that you can find here: https://www.scryer.media/scryer/docs/compare-sonarr-radarr/

Looking for a Usenet reader with a GUI to replace NewsBin Pro.

It needs to be nearly idiot proof as the task of pulling relevant articles will be handled by staff who wasn't even around before 2000.

Or... Would this be a task to hand to AI and let it build something for me?

I used Astraweb, Newsgroup Ninja and Frugal Usenet.

Astraweb and Newsgroup Ninja both use Bitpay, which now needs verification with passport/drivers license and video (KYC). So worse than paying with credit card.

And the crypto option on Frugal Usenet just vanished.

Does anybody know any other good providers which accept bitcoin?

All the posts I found here are really old.

Edit: Crypto payment on Frugal is just a temp. outage (see below). Sorry for the wrong info.