Host speed test for free users

[palo5]

This thread is to compare speeds of hosts. The question is who is faster for free downloads and uploads, in other words, for most of our users

My reference file is 534,07 MB, and location is GMT + 2

(The movie is WW2 doku, 45 min, but it's not about the content)

1fichier:

No registration
Upload: 18 min
Download: 18 min

http://okvsn657pq.1fichier.com/

Upload and download yourself and post your times. Use any host

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Now RG...

Edit: ok later, they want me to register and are slow to email

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Now UL.net...

Registration required. No files bigger than 250 MB

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Now k2s...

Registration required. No files bigger than 500 MB

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Now filefactory...

Registration required
Upload: 21 min
Download: 61 min

http://www.filefactory.com/file/5ne7...0Bagration.avi

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Now zippyshare...

No files bigger than 200 MB

Now Putlocker/Firedrive

File too big

Pity, because the last two are seriously fast downloaders

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Now Mega...

Must be registered
Upload: 21 min
Download: 2,5 minutes insanely fast

https://mega.co.nz/#!0pwiSJYB!gScO3-tFqOpYJsjxMYxA5GFrXr27l9eDBd4QalIAIO8


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Now DepositFiles...

Must be registered
Upload: 22 min
Download: 44 min

http://dfiles.eu/files/yl0lz740t

[Dimitri Yar]

My vote is 1fichier.

[lds17pl]

solidfiles

upload ratio similar to 1fichier

but high ratio download

[palo5]

solidfiles

Registration required. No files bigger than 500 MB

[bigbobnobody]

Hey Palo.....
for reference purposes.....how about you tell us how fast your upload and
download speed is with your internet connection. Reason being.....that although
download speeds are most definitely held back on virtually every site
for free users, the opposite can be said for upload speed......with most
being only limited by one's ISP bandwidth limitations. For instance......
lets say a file host has a limit of 100 kbs for free users. Their download
speeds are going to be 100 kbs tops, for everyone other than dial up
internet connections, while upload speeds are going to vary greatly.
Know what I mean? Just curious, because your upload speeds seem
insanely fast to me lol.

[palo5]

Originally Posted by bigbobnobody

Hey Palo.....
for reference purposes.....how about you tell us how fast your upload and
download speed is with your internet connection. Reason being.....that although
download speeds are most definitely held back on virtually every site
for free users, the opposite can be said for upload speed......with most
being only limited by one's ISP bandwidth limitations. For instance......
lets say a file host has a limit of 100 kbs for free users. Their download
speeds are going to be 100 kbs tops, for everyone other than dial up
internet connections, while upload speeds are going to vary greatly.
Know what I mean? Just curious, because your upload speeds seem
insanely fast to me lol.

Sure



My nominal connection is 100/10 Mbs but I never get anything close

Upload speeds surprise me as a free user, but they're absolutely true, at least for me. Some time ago I was an RS subscriber: it took hours to get a 700-800 MB movie uploaded and you had to split files. Some newer hosts are 5-10 times faster these days, and some accept 20 GB files - and that's for free users

[bigbobnobody]

Originally Posted by palo5

Sure



My nominal connection is 100/10 Mbs but I never get anything close

Upload speeds surprise me as a free user, but they're absolutely true, at least for me. Some time ago I was an RS subscriber: it took hours to get a 700-800 MB movie uploaded and you had to split files. Some newer hosts are 5-10 times faster these days, and some accept 20 GB files - and that's for free users

thanks Palo Yea I was right...you are fast! lol ...compared to me anyways.
Your discussion on upload speeds seemed interesting to me, because
those are hardly ever regulated if at all. I've never seen a bit of difference
in upload speed from one host to another, free or premium. But then I suspect
that one's ISP bandwidth has to have at least some play in that equation too.
My connection speed seems simply blazing to me lol, but then being on
dial up for years, then gradually moving up to a "high speed" connection
of 1.5/32kb then to what I have now of 10/1, I have to say that my
"Model T" DSL connection, is very jealous of your "Lamborghini" connection! lol

On those those sites with 20 gig upload per file limits for free users,
I can't imagine those links for those files that big lasting too awfully long.
Do you know?

[palo5]

Originally Posted by bigbobnobody

On those those sites with 20 gig upload per file limits for free users,
I can't imagine those links for those files that big lasting too awfully long.
Do you know?

All I know is that hosts die sooner or later, technology improves, and we should use advantages when we see them. My crystal ball is no clearer than anyone else's

[bigbobnobody]

Originally Posted by palo5

All I know is that hosts die sooner or later, technology improves, and we should use advantages when we see them. My crystal ball is no clearer than anyone else's

I gave up on crystal balls after the gypsy lady at the carnival told
me I was in the runnin' to shag Suzi Tompkins.....the best lookin' gal
in school, and she ended up with some other fella! lol

Seriously though, unless you use a file host consistently over a period of
time, seems kinda rash to me to judge any one of em "good" or "bad".
What's good today, may not be tomorrow, and vice versa. You're sure
right about file hosts dying, but that doesn't mean that they all do, which
the two oldest of them all......Rapidshare and Filefactory, can attest to.

3 years ago, you might have said, that all you knew was that file hosts
change their names. Which alot of them would do, after promising rewards
and not following up on that promise. Of course after the big MU take down,
and the file host destruction following that to so many others in the business,
what exactly has changed? File hosts closing only to open up under
other company names? The more things change the more they stay the
same, I believe is how the old saying goes isn't it? lol

It all boils down to the purpose of your upload if you're uploading something.
Are you wanting to share it for a short while, or indefinitely? The
answer to that query, is going to be different depending on what
one wants, is what I believe....don't you Palo?

At any rate.......interesting stats there bud......thanks!

[slimOl55]

I thought that if the Members downloaded your dummy file and posted

back their results, you would give a global or local idea of what was the

'normal' or expected. (Country by Country..territory by territory).

My i/p provided the file in 31 minutes, but I have experinced that Mediafire

surpasses all expectations in delivery - it takes minutes, and done!

- it's what you should expect!

Who wants to wait all day for a 'maybe' file ?

drink, smoke or eat for World Peace.. just TRY & remember how to FLOW

slimol55