I am going to start by saying I am trying to avoid reddit, as such, this is probably information that has been asked MANY times and I also found similar reddit posts that I just didn’t want to click on. So here goes.

I am currently wanting to move from my NL hosted VPS that I use with my torrents. I normally only use a single private tracker and have a 2.5 ratio with 25tb overhead. I have just done things relativity manually and just download top things for the day on my tracker, as well was auto-tools with rutorrent setup for rss feed automated downloads.

My current project for my library is to migrate to the arr’s for all of this. As I have learned these a bit, I have decided that I would like to move towards usenet and start using it, along side of my current private tracker.

While cost is a factor, it is not that much of an issue. My questions are;

1. what would be a decent usenet provider? The biggest thing that I want out of it would be speed. I want my releases to download as fast as possible. I am based in the US I also would like to have a decent provider with a decent retention, although it isn’t that big of a deal.

2. what indexers would be worth while to pursue and add to prowlarr? I have signed up for free accounts on nzbgeek and nzbplanet. A similar search that is not on my private tracker, I found nzb geek had episode 2, while planet had both episode 1 and 2 available.

My downloads are really only movies and tv shows.

It has been so long since I have been in usenet, but I was looking at joining giganews, but wanted to see if they are even worth the cost for what I am after.

Thank you all for you help on this. I appreciate your time on my questions that get asked daily.