just started today, i have some questions...
so i decided to dip my toes into usenet to see kind of whats going on over here. so for the downloader i'm using sabnzbd. its simple. straight forward. no big deal. for the indexer i'm using nzbplanet. not sure if there are better ones or whatever, but thats where i'm starting, and for the provider i set up frugal for a one month use to get a hang of how things work.
i tested a few downloads, tweaked some settings, and things are humming along, but then i'll go to download something and it will fail. it will say multiple articles missing, and then just dumps out. are these things just lost to time? or are there alternate ways to find the missing pieces? i think thats where i'm needing help in understanding because i'm used to using p2p, but then you are at the mercy of if someone is online or not. and i've used websites that interface with cloud download lockers, but with those you nearly have to maintain a rapidgator premium sub to download really anything of consequence. but i really like how they work and the fact if the link is there, its a guaranteed download, as long as my sub is current.
usenet, from what i'm seeing it appears to be a lot of trial and error? i'll see something, click download, halfway through it fails, so then i go back to the list, click the next, halfway through it fails, so then i go back to the list, click the third choice, that works, but its from a release group that i usually ignore because they overly compress or whatever, so the one that worked is a less desirable version of what i'm looking for. so how exactly do i approach this to where the things i am downloading are consistently finishing :) is it simply needing to use a different provider? i've seen the list of providers, but i'm not sure what each specialize in and what their strengths and weaknesses are. same for indexers. i would presume an indexer is an indexer, but i'm sure thats not the case in reality. i've tried to click on some reddit articles to get more detail, but a lot of the ones that describe what i'm looking for are missing once i click them, so...
i guess i'm rambling now, but just wanting to get some more understanding from more seasoned experts