Torrents vs. NZB

I use prepaid accounts from Astraweb.

$50 for 1000GB - awesome...

I also use news servers and torrents.

News servers 98% of the time and torrents 2% of the time when I cannot find something very old on news servers. Very rarely though.

For me News servers are way better than torrents.

I do however use aDownloader on my tab if I need something in a hurry...
 
I use prepaid accounts from Astraweb.

$50 for 1000GB - awesome...

I also use news servers and torrents.

News servers 98% of the time and torrents 2% of the time when I cannot find something very old on news servers. Very rarely though.

For me News servers are way better than torrents.

I do however use aDownloader on my tab if I need something in a hurry...

missed that special on astra :( tab for the win! i got nzbleech though
 
In terms of being free, torrents have much better retentions, whereas so far I haven't found a free NZB indexer than has more than 100 days retention for free users. However if you pay a small monthly, yearly, even once off free then the retention is much higher than torrents around the 1000 to 1500 days mark, much longer than any torrent will last.

Are you referring to nzb search sites or the news servers themselves. As far as search sites go, google "nzb search" and you'll find that most of the results on the first page index over 1000 days and can be searched for free.
 
Are you referring to nzb search sites or the news servers themselves. As far as search sites go, google "nzb search" and you'll find that most of the results on the first page index over 1000 days and can be searched for free.

I was referring to the Websites, thanks for the site, bookmarked.
 
I paid $10 for 10 years on nzbmatrix. Seems to do the job so far.

Its 10 years now? It used to be forever :p Although - I imagine in 10 years there will be something else. (although newgroups have been round forever)
 
Sickbeard seems to do a pretty good job of finding current nzbs with its built in providers...
 
Sickbeard seems to do a pretty good job of finding current nzbs with its built in providers...

It'll most likely only have a problem with old episodes.

I'm trying to get Futurama without luck from both nzb and torrents :(
 
I'm using https://gibinews.eu/en and they are pretty decent. Its only 3.5 euro for 1 month access. So its really cheap and has 1200 binary retention so its just as good as astraweb just cheaper. Ohh and it only offers 10 connections and no upload though but its still a good provider if you just want to download your stuff.

I max my 4mb ine with them on my IS uncapped so I'm happy since its only like R36 a month.

Another good provider is fastusenet.org

But more than gibi but also very nice. I can vouch for these 2 usenet providers cause I use/d them both.
 
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It'll most likely only have a problem with old episodes.

I'm trying to get Futurama without luck from both nzb and torrents :(

I see usenet has all 6 seasons of futurama. I have a account at nzbsrus.com though but there is all season 1-6 its a bit old at +- 600 days but with a usenet provider like usenetserver,astraweb,fastusenet,gibinew,giganews,supernews all those you should be able to grab it.
 
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