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Any reset invalidates the previous one so a reset breaks every client already configured.' Two clients on one account starve each other and the server refuses the older holder.","binding":"retention-clamped","binding_note":"Ten connections carry a 1 TiB/month pull comfortably; what fails is the article, because the spool is a strict subset of the Omicron feed and holds nothing the others lack.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"the news credentials come from torbox.app under tools, username is the account auth id and the password is shown once.","country":null},"reliability_note":"A miss is real: 153 misses were re-asked on a fresh connection and none came back, roughly 1% noise; a password reset breaks every configured client; two clients on ten connections refuse each other.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"This is one third party's measurement, dated 2026-09-02 and 2026-09-03, from two hosts on separate networks, including the connection cap and the coverage table. It is not the vendor's documentation and no probe was run here. The vendor's own retention claim (3900+ days) is quoted separately and is contradicted in practice by the measured coverage.","evidence":[{"url":"https://notes.debridmediamanager.com/providers/torbox-news-server/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Connections | 10, a hard cap counted exactly, mid handshake included'; '482 too many connections for your user' and '482 Invalid username or password'; '3900+ days claimed by TorBox'; the coverage table for 531 ids; 'All 153 misses were asked again on a fresh connection minutes later and none came back'; 'TorBox held nothing the others lacked. Not one article in 531.'"},{"url":"https://torbox.app/pricing","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"The Pro plan at $10/mo is the tier that bundles usenet; the free and lower tiers list no usenet."},{"url":"https://notes.debridmediamanager.com/providers/usenet/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'backup: true keeps the ten connections for articles every other account has already refused ... Only a real no such article does.'"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-23T02:22:02.000Z","price_per_tb_month":null,"notes":"Candidates for the first failure: a 482 connection refusal, a password reset, or a 430 on older posts. The 430 is the one that matters for an archive pull and the coverage table quantifies it; the connection refusal is the one a careless pool meets in the first hour. The 3900-day retention claim and the measured coverage disagree, and the record keeps both rather than choosing.","extras":{"failure_angle":"subset spool","strongest_signal":"430 on posts the primary also lacks","account_states":"482 too many connections (transient); 482 invalid username or password (dead credential after a reset)","cache_miss":"not applicable; the server answers from a local index, so a miss is absence rather than a slow upstream probe","host_removal":"the software fingerprint (nntpswitch2) is shared with Cheapnews, XS News, Easyusenet, Hitnews and UseNeXT, so the spool behind the brand can change without the hostname changing"}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:request-rate","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:retention-clamped","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[],"history":[],"drift":[]}