For those who would like to try downloading from Usenet, but don't have time/don't want to do the learning,
There's a free Usenet service that lets you download from Usenet, via nzb, using your regular web browser.
It's called UsenetStorm, & the short version is, it lets you upload an nzb file from your computer to their server,
where the files are collected & put into a zip archive.
When the processing is completed (less than 3 mins each time I tested it), you go to a download page to get it.
There's a good article with more info & how-to on TorrentFreak
I tried 3 nzb's, one after the other, to see if the site would allow it, & had no problem each time.
Downloading was steady around 277 KBytes/sec on all 3 downloads. The only limits for free users
are a cap on download speed, & a 500 MB limit on files that your nzb points to. I split an nzb for a 575 MB video
into 2 smaller nzb's, & downloaded both with no trouble, extracting & then combining the split parts as usual.
After years of saying that free Usenet is crap compared to Usenet that costs $$, I found this exception.
I didn't see anything posted here about it, so I thought I'd pass it along for anyone who may be interested.
This is Usenet downloading with much less trouble than you get from being a free downloader on the file lockers!
There's a free Usenet service that lets you download from Usenet, via nzb, using your regular web browser.
It's called UsenetStorm, & the short version is, it lets you upload an nzb file from your computer to their server,
where the files are collected & put into a zip archive.
When the processing is completed (less than 3 mins each time I tested it), you go to a download page to get it.
There's a good article with more info & how-to on TorrentFreak
I tried 3 nzb's, one after the other, to see if the site would allow it, & had no problem each time.
Downloading was steady around 277 KBytes/sec on all 3 downloads. The only limits for free users
are a cap on download speed, & a 500 MB limit on files that your nzb points to. I split an nzb for a 575 MB video
into 2 smaller nzb's, & downloaded both with no trouble, extracting & then combining the split parts as usual.
After years of saying that free Usenet is crap compared to Usenet that costs $$, I found this exception.
I didn't see anything posted here about it, so I thought I'd pass it along for anyone who may be interested.
This is Usenet downloading with much less trouble than you get from being a free downloader on the file lockers!
