How To Make Use Of Usenet For File Sharing by Lachlan Roy

Author:Lachlan Roy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Reference
Published: 2012-01-09T16:00:00+00:00

A Usenet Client

Finally, you’ll need to use a program called a Usenet client to access Usenet content.

What Am I Looking For?

There are three different kinds of Usenet clients, and choosing the best one for you depends on what you intend to use Usenet for.

The first kind of Usenet client is the newsreader. It’s made almost exclusively for accessing text-only discussions in Usenet’s newsgroups. As such, it’s very clumsy when it comes to downloading binary files (particularly large ones comprising of many different parts). This guide focuses on the file sharing aspect of Usenet, so a newsreader isn’t much good to us.

The second kind of client is the NZB downloader. As the name suggests, clients like these are built to manage downloading posts pointed to by NZB files, but aren’t really designed to view and contribute to text discussions. As NZB files are so popular these days, these clients are becoming the most common and prominent.

The final kind of client is the hybrid client, which provides the functionality of both the newsreader and the NZB downloader. These programs are rarely free and are usually much larger than either kind. Furthermore, they are rarely cross-platform, meaning you must purchase the software for a specific operating system; this limits their usefulness.

For most people reading this guide, the NZB downloader is the best choice (indeed, this is the case for most users in general unless they specifically want to access text discussions in the newsgroups).

SABnzbd

SABnzbd is one of the most popular Usenet clients, and for good reason; it’s open source (making it completely free), and it does what it’s designed to do really, really well.

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