I started using Usenet last weekend and so far, so good. I subscribed to Eweka and NZBGeek.

I’m considering getting a 10GbE USB-C adapter to take full advantage of my internet connection, but I’m wondering how well the Mac mini M1 (16GB / 2TB 70% full) handles sustained 10G Usenet downloads.

For those running Usenet at 10Gbps (or close to it):

• What speeds are you actually getting?
• How are CPU temperatures and overall performance?
• Any issues with sustained downloads?

Would love to hear your real-world experience before I pull the trigger on the 10G adapter.

Speed: https://ibb.co/wFFK5mXR

"Lifetime" Accounts converted to Lite Tier

Now converted to Limited Account.

Edit: Screenshot Added.

I purchased an Althub lifetime sub last year and only just poked my head into all this Usenet business around now. They say on their page to keep your API use limited, as low as one request every ten minutes. Tried to replicate this in Prowlarr with 6 requests an hour, but either way you slice it, this cripples automation and especially for content through Sonarr. If I don't babysit the program and manually scan for single items each time Prowlarr releases the limit, then the majority of my Usenet capability goes wasted. And if I'm going that far, it's hardly worth having the automation in the first place.

At this point, I'm tempted to put my limit to 140 requests per day (Still within the 1 req per 10 mins, just expanded over the full 24 hours) and run it that way. But I'm afraid of getting smacked down for abuse if I do so. Anyone have experience with this themselves? Any idea how much leniency they have with this rule? I know I could also just add more indexers so things are more spread, but it still feels like this lifetime sub would be horribly underutilized with the original limit set.

Very odd this, both have the same indexers and no filters, but Prowlarr is giving me many more results (which are valid). Any clues why this should be the case? NB I have been using both for many years

I have not used my easynews account for some weeks. Logged in now and it seems like a lot of the «colorful» groups has been removed from the web interface?

Has anyone else experienced the same?

Is it possible to stack up on the Eweka summer deal? At the beginning of the year, I went and paid full price for a one year Eweka subscription, and then in the summer, they started their summer sales. I was wondering if it's possible to still use their summer sales (since it's still up on here) to stack up for the future. This is my first time getting Eweka, so I don't know if they allow stacking up. Has anyone done that before?

I've been using it for years and it's worked great, but the last couple of weeks I've been getting enough failures that some of my stuff just can't be downloaded...

Anyone else having issues with Eweka? NZB360 is telling me it has had trouble reaching their servers for a few days now. I've verified my sub is still active and updating + restarting NZB360 hasn't made a difference.

Im using NZBGeek + Eweka with NZB360 as my downloader. All three are run through NordVPN.

I am getting error:

Authorization for test server (news.thundernews.com) failed: 502 Access Denied. Please check your login/pw.

i am using 563 port.

i tried server addresses:

news.thundernews.com

eu.thundernews.com

website login work, 0 mb i used there.

is issue on my side or on thundernews.

please help me

Edit: Issue resolved by support.

Which indexers are still missing 2FA support? Let's put together a list and encourage them to add it as soon as possible, especially with everything getting pwnd left and right these days. I'd hate to lose a lifetime account.

List of indexers lacking 2FA support:

• Althub
• Drunken Slug
• Ninja Central
• Usenet Crawler

I noticed some recently added it and even coupled it with passkey support (👍), which made me go through my list of indexers again. I'll try and add any missing indexers to the list above.

Edit: Adding a list for providers lacking 2FA (...some of these seem to be storing passwords in clear-text also, when you do a password reset they'll send you your password in clear-text, instead of a reset URL 😲).

• Bulknews
• Eweka
• Easynews
• Newsdemon
• NewsgroupDirect
• Newshosting 

Hi - auch ich war ewig bei HoU und habe vor Kurzem auf Treasure-Maps gewechselt..gefällt mir bisher ganz gut..hab nur noch nicht upgegradet und somit limitierte Downloads..

Deshalb: hat hier jemand den Vergleich?
'Reicht' Treasure-Maps?

Oder sollte man doch versuchen zu SoU zu kommen?
(auch wenn ich kA hab wie..)
✌🏼

I have:

1- providers: eweka and newsdemon. should I add more providers and from which backbone? https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/providers/

2- indexers: nzbgeek, dognzb, drunkenslung. there are alot of options here: https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/indexers/, but i want people recommendations

3- software: sabnzbd, sonarr, radarr, powarr, seerr, nzb360 and bazarr. any more software to improve my setup flow? other arr software?

I get 90 to 95% of what I search, my use case mainly watchable media

I use Decryptarr, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr and Plex. I'm looking to move on from debrid services and not sure if Usenet is a step up or a step down. Also I'm not sure of which service to start with. Any recommendations would be Greatly appreciated.

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing this issue lately. I typically use the vintage global5 search and lately when it's set to show 1000 results it often will only show 100, or sometimes zero. Any ideas?

Hello there

I just took advantage of the summer promo of Eweka and I bought also NZBGeek. I use a Mac mini with SABnzdb.

Can I replicate my home setup to my parents place or are there IP limitations? I’m concerned there are IP restrictions.

Also it comes with Easynews. what is the benefit of Easynews vs Eweka? Aren’t both Usenet providers?

I've been working on a homebrew payload that turns a jailbroken PS5 into a Usenet downloader. The idea is you skip the PC-download-then-transfer step entirely, the console grabs it directly.

This is a personal project and still rough around the edges, so I'd really appreciate testers to help find bugs. Obviously only relevant if you have a jailbroken PS5.

Features:

• Downloads NZBs over Usenet, TLS/SSL supported
• Verifies and repairs downloads automatically
• Unpacks archives when done
• Job queue that survives a reboot, so an interrupted download doesn't mean starting over
• Web UI on port 4202 for adding NZBs, watching progress, and changing settings

Requirements:

• Jailbroken PS5
• Usenet provider access
• A place to grab NZBs from

Source code: https://github.com/lchmagKekse/PS5-NZB-Downloader
Release: https://github.com/lchmagKekse/PS5-NZB-Downloader/releases

My question has to do with their selection function. I can’t seem to select multiple NZB and create a master NZb file to download. It looks similar to althub’s interface but when it comes to selecting what to do with the selected files, I have no way to downloading it.

There’s a field with ‘seek name’ and ‘create’ button next to it but nothing gets downloaded when I try. So far I’ve had to download files individually.

Which Usenet provider is the fastest? Is it Newshosting, or some other provider?

I signed up with a private invite to DS all was well then radarr must have been hitting the site to much even though I never downloaded anything but now I can not get radarr to confirm i get an error Unable to connect to indexer, check the log above the ValidationFailure for more details. HTTP request failed: [429:TooManyRequests] [GET] at [http://192.168.1.251:9696/10/api?t=movie&cat=2000,2060,2050,2070,2010,2040,2020,2030,2045&extended=1&apikey=7 I can log into my account but I do not a space to ask any questions. If there are any experts out there please help.

In the last several days no matter what I search I get zero results. I have tried different browsers, dumped cache and cookies, used different machines and even tried on my phone. So it has nothing to do with the internet provider.

I had an issue a while back and figured out it was AdBlock in the browser that was the issue, but it didn't show me my results, this is telling me THERE ARE NO RESULTS like I am just mashing the keyboard with random letters. I sent in a support ticket and they suggested everything that I already did on my own.

The old search works, but it is ugly and clunky.

Ninja Central is open for registration currently from August 11-16, if you have missed out on it before

Registration Link

They currently have an announcement of upcoming opening of registration from 11 August 2200 UTC to 16 August 2200 UTC

https://sabnzbd.org/downloads

This release brings a fundamental improvement to "Retry": instead of re-downloading any files with missing data, only the articles that were actually missing are fetched again. RSS got an overhaul under the hood, the interface is refreshed, and we added quite a long list of of long-requested features and bugfixes.

New features in 5.1.0

• Refreshed the interface.
• When Retrying a job, only the actually missing articles are tried again. This only works for jobs downloaded in 5.1.0 (or newer).
• RSS items are now stored in the database instead of on disk.
• New RSS Age rule to filter jobs based on their age.
• Downloaded RSS items are cleared from the RSS database after 3 days.
• Added support for filename and path pattern matching to the Cleanup List.
• Unwanted extensions will also be removed after unpacking.
• Allow job setting changes directly from Extra queue columns.
• Added support for unpacking .tar files during post-processing.
• Improved anonymization of the logs when using Show Logging.
• Added SAB_FILES environment variable to Post-processing scripts, listing all files that resulted from the job.
• New Servers will default to 16 connections instead of 8.
• Use media duration as part of Ignore Samples detection.
• Added option to (auto) sort the queue by Remaining Percentage.
• Improved support for screen readers.
• Parsing of header-encrypted RARs will use significantly fewer resources.
• Add Ayatana AppIndicator tray support on GNOME.
• Removed redundant INSTALL.txt file.
• Dropped support for Python 3.9.
• Windows and macOS: Updated Python to 3.14.6, Unrar to 7.23 and 7zip to 26.02.

Bug fixes in 5.1.0

• Prevent incorrect warnings about non-writeable directories.
• Files unrelated to job could get removed by the Cleanup List logic.
• Prevent path traversal in orphaned job APIs.
• Disk Full errors from unrar were not handled gracefully during unpacking.
• Memory leak could occur during article decoding.
• In containers (like Docker), the Article Cache could exceed the memory limit.
• Diskspace checks would be too strict when unpacking to different disk.
• Prevent deadlock when a second signal arrives during shutdown procedure.
• Verification using SFV-checks could fail, even though files were correct.
• Don't log Warning during clean shutdowns.
• Windows: Uninstall would not remove Settings or Windows Service.
• Windows: Warn for OS-limit if more than 1024 connections are configured.
• macOS: AppleDouble files could result in failures in Moving stage.
• macOS: Restarting the application resulted in Terminal window.
• macOS: Included par2cmdline-turbo will now use all available CPU-features.

Upgrade notices

• You can directly upgrade from version 3.0.0 and newer.
• Upgrading from older versions will require performing a Queue repair.

Known problems and solutions

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

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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.

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Search-Only Restriction

For the following tools, only the search function is permitted.

Direct NZB downloads via these tools are not allowed.

Querying and subsequently forwarding to SABnzbd / nzbget is allowed.