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this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2023
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90% of my collection came from torrents, but I got tired of receiving copyright claims. (no vpn)
Switched to usenet mostly for that, but the other thing is the speed; torrents are typically 1-2mbps maybe 3 if you're lucky and if you're not it can take days to complete. Usenet gives me a consistent 60mbps always, limited by my write speed. If it's not ready to watch within 20min of being requested, it's because it couldn't be found.
The day I switched from 17odd torrent indexers to a single usenet indexer, I triggered a mass search through radarr+sonarr and grabbed 2.3tb of media they had failed to find previously with torrents, completed downloading in under 36hrs.
That's not my experience at all, I'm usually downloading at around 200-350Mbps (can't do more that's the limit of my connection) on TV shows etc.
I've occasionally run into higher rate torrents like that, but they were few and far between in the 7ish years I ran my media server on torrents.
Usenet though, the speed is always consistent regardless of the content.