BT vs Usenet

[worldpease]

What do you mean by this? I'd really like to know;
how will the files download if I turn off my PC?

I think it's a reference to Usenet's speed and lack of uploading. You get the files blazing fast, and since you don't have to seed them afterwards, you can just shut your PC down if you have nothing else to do.

Uh! now that I read it again,
I kinda' sounded stupid with that question, lol.

[BoNeHead]

Dont use anything else except BT

[anon]

Dont use anything else except BT

Thanks for the post, really constructive and relevant to the discussion. You know what? I think I'll go back to torrents just because you don't use anything except them. That must mean they're awesome, dude.

[PerMaFrOsT]

Well, as a heavy user of BluRay niche i prefer BT Nework by far over Usenet.

• RAR/UNRAR -> BT Folders | Usenet You have to unrar all the files and could need to repair some of them (CRC Errors)

Many clients do that automatically for you (I use newsleecher, it repairs and unrar's them right after finishing downloading).
The one thing I hate about usenet (though I prefer it and I am an avid usenet user).. is there is lots of wasted downloading.. unless a torrent site that has staff to remove crap like some homemade DVD that has 22 episodes shrunk down to one DVD... you get CAMs converted to DVD9s and things like that. If you are searching using a standard indexing like binsearch.info, you don't know what is actually good to download or not - unless you stick to scene releases only. Using an indexing site though at least you will get comments from other users advising if its worth to download or not.

Unrar 2-8GB Files is a very light operation but when we are talking about 400≈ files and BluRays with a weight around 35-45GB... also you have to add the common CRC problems (it´s easy to fix them with p.par2 files, but the clock is counting and you spend time )

private trackers rocks for get blurays fast

[XDA]

I started out using Usenet but been using both for yrs Usenet and BT both have their pros and cons.

[Funkin']

private trackers rocks for get blurays fast

Everyone has their own preference. I would much rather use Usenet to grab HD files instead of keeping these large files on my internal drive for who knows how long taking up space just to seed with my slow connection. For me it's better to download them at full speed, spend the few measly minutes to extract them, then move them to my external and forget about it.

[SniperXX]

I use a combination of trackers and usenet. A few times a file has popped up on usenet before its on one of my trackers so then I upload it to the tracker. Some files I've had better luck with trackers and some on usenet.

It's all down to personal preference I'd say.

[bijoy]

after my changeover my first post in this thread..

BT: in 70% cases its like kids playground.
Usenet: no kids business. Its like a place with a poster at every entrance: "Kids are not allowed here".


I guess I hurt the feelings of some people.

[lightshow]

I mainly use UseNet and there are only a few things I still get from the torrent/tracker world

1) Niche sites to let me browse through their collections to see what other things I may like that I haven't considered (ie Anime trackers)
2) Trustworthy comments on torrents from private trackers (ie. BestAppEver-RoXxX -> comments let me know RoXxX is a bogus group and it's just packaged spyware with the app. In usenet I just see BestAppEver-RoXxX and I have to make the decision myself to know if its malware, etc.)

As for everything else, FST's nzb section lets me see what's out everyday and the design and usefulness is amazing. Oh, and SSL is priceless, I make fun of all the torrent runners who still get letter's from their ISP about that horrible looking cam they downloaded...

[anon]

Oh, and SSL is priceless, I make fun of all the torrent runners who still get letter's from their ISP about that horrible looking cam they downloaded...

SSL is nice, but you're already not going to get those dreaded letters without it, since you're downloading from a single server and not uploading anything.