What do you think about MEGA?

What are your feelings on MEGA? Somehow I don’t trust it, checking that checkbox makes me feel like signing a bad contract…

Am I the only one?

Love it. Been using it since day one, never a problem, never a file taken down, fast, free, reliable.

with jdownloader, it is very fast and working well. no limits and more than one downloading at once. no captcha either. is it good for more than uploaded, with bad 50kb limit and 3 hour wait!

Not worse, nor better than any other file-hosting website. Uploads, regardless of filesize, randomly freeze at 15%, 52%, or 82%… This is an issue which I only have with the new MEGA, and I’m sure that it’s the website’s fault, given that without resetting my Internet connection+retrying the upload on another website, the process completes successfully. I must retry at least 2-3 times to get stuff on my account on MEGA. From what I’ve been reading around on different places and sharing blogs, users complain that the downloads on such website have a tendency to freeze, too… In addition to the problem I’ve recounted previously.

The only good thing I’ve to say about MEGA is that it has pretty awesome upload-speed caps.

Have had 0 problem with MEGA besides occassional download drops. I used to use Mediafire and 4Shared but I’m not going back.

There may be a slightest chance that privacy risk is involved, but I usually don’t worry about it.

What are your feelings on MEGA? Somehow I don’t trust it, checking that checkbox makes me feel like signing a bad contract…

Am I the only one?

Yes you’re the only one! lol

I have been using them since March with no problems whatsoever aside a security extension update they did a week or so ago without any notification.

Not worse, nor better than any other file-hosting website. Uploads, regardless of filesize, randomly freeze at 15%, 52%, or 82%… This is an issue which I only have with the new MEGA, and I’m sure that it’s the website’s fault, given that without resetting my Internet connection+retrying the upload on another website, the process completes successfully. I must retry at least 2-3 times to get stuff on my account on MEGA. From what I’ve been reading around on different places and sharing blogs, users complain that the downloads on such website have a tendency to freeze, too… In addition to the problem I’ve recounted previously.

The only good thing I’ve to say about MEGA is that it has pretty awesome upload-speed caps.

Never had a single download or upload failure and have been using every single day since launch, with the exception of the very first day when everything was going haywire, which was entirely understandable.

Again, if it were their problem then it would be widely experienced; that it’s not suggests a problem AT YOUR END!

There may be a slightest chance that privacy risk is involved, but I usually don’t worry about it.

Not quite sure why folk are more concerned about privacy at Mega (which seems to be the only file host genuinely concerned about your privacy) than any of the others. Your stuff is encrypted – and even if it weren’t that would do nothing but reduce your level of privacy to the same you’d experience on any other file host. Mega is safe, secure, reliable, and fast – except for a handful of users who would do better to sort out their own problems instead of trying to position their own individual bad experiences as proof that the service is, as a whole, crap… 😉

I still like mirrorcreator, but am using mega too. Uploads are extremely fast, as are downloads. I have never once had either freeze on me or fail. The only reason I do not turn to it exclusively is the number of members here who either cannot use it or dislike it.

Very useful, keep all you D/L and Upload in memory, quit fast…but not support "Robots" ( Uploaders )…so I use it more for Private Posts…( but I use it a lot… no complain )
But Good, and has to be use with Chrome for real results, only…

Never had a single download or upload failure and have been using every single day since launch, with the exception of the very first day when everything was going haywire, which was entirely understandable.

Again, if it were their problem then it would be widely experienced; that it’s not suggests a problem AT YOUR END!
As I’ve said, the issues I’ve experienced are also mentioned by other users on different sharing boards and blogs, but keep reading ONLY WHAT YOU WANT, tangotreats. Such problems aren’t only on my end. Look, it’s great if MEGA works flawlessly for you, but that’s not the case for everyone. That website is flawed for some setups, browsers, etcetera.

What are your feelings on MEGA? Somehow I don’t trust it, checking that checkbox makes me feel like signing a bad contract…

Am I the only one?

Like faust did? 🙂

the only problem that I faced up with mega is thst some files suddenly become temporarily unavailable,,,,

and after a few days or weeks, already happened to me, becomes availbale

the rest is ok

[Never mind, too tired for another argument. Good night, folks. :)]

No longer the case; Mega is optimised for the latest Firefox and they are now recommending Firefox over Chrome. No plugins required or anything else. It just works.

Happy to know about that 😉
But as still use Firefox on "main PC" but I wan to change for something else, and I know what…

anyday now mega recommends only opera

I have only firefox, and on my end have yet to have even a small glitch.

I’ve had the odd upload fail with mega, but it’s far better than the nightmare i used to have with mediafire, every other upload would fail, especially uploads left over night. I shed many a tear when this happened.

So far i’ve only had one file deleted. Now on other sites once you had ONE file deleted usually the rest of your uploads were in jeopardy of being erased and it’s possible that your account would be completely deleted as well.

Honestly the two best uploading sites out there are Zippy/Mega. Zippy works pretty much like mediafire (how easy it is to access and download stuff. It usually doesn’t even take a minute to download stuff from there). The only problem is that it has a 200MB limit but if you are uploading a regular soundtrack in mp3 it’s no problem. If no one downloads your file within 30 days it gets deleted but this is also a minor issue. I basically use mega for my big uploads only. And this system has worked very well ^_^.

Not worse, nor better than any other file-hosting website. Uploads, regardless of filesize, randomly freeze at 15%, 52%, or 82%… This is an issue which I only have with the new MEGA, and I’m sure that it’s the website’s fault, given that without resetting my Internet connection+retrying the upload on another website, the process completes successfully. I must retry at least 2-3 times to get stuff on my account on MEGA. From what I’ve been reading around on different places and sharing blogs, users complain that the downloads on such website have a tendency to freeze, too… In addition to the problem I’ve recounted previously.

The only good thing I’ve to say about MEGA is that it has pretty awesome upload-speed caps.

I’ve experienced these problems as well, just yesterday in fact while downloading Jessie’s Payday soundtrack. I had to restart the download 3 times until it was finally able to download completely. Not sure why it freezes randomly; it’s really annoying because sometimes I watch a movie while I wait for the download to complete and when the movie has finished, I find that the download froze. Definitely not something I like. Despite these problems I still like using Mega, it’s very convenient and as pointed out elsewhere in this thread, the files are encrypted and there is very low chance of anything getting deleted.

I’ve had the odd upload fail with mega, but it’s far better than the nightmare i used to have with mediafire, every other upload would fail, especially uploads left over night. I shed many a tear when this happened.

Use an Uploader Jessie ( if you like those kind of Softwares, of course ), and you should as Me…choice from "hundreds" Servers, and "Failed" are extremely Rare…( I upload over the Night too )

What are your feelings on MEGA? Somehow I don’t trust it, checking that checkbox makes me feel like signing a bad contract…

Am I the only one?

You don’t have to check a checkbox if you signed up for an account.

Nice to see so many of you reacting. As almost all of you only talk about technical performance, you don’t worry -at all- about privacy. Have you read the terms of service and privacy policy? As I read it: There is not much privacy….everything is logged as long as you use their services. No mention of destruction of data when you stop using their service. A huge amount of the responsibility / liability is deposited with the user….us

You don’t have to check a checkbox if you signed up for an account.
That’s not true, you have to agree with the "terms of service"…

Like faust did?
LoL well not that much no, but with those privacy minded (not) governments and institutions…may be we all do? 🙂 man… that sounds very paranoia. don’t mean it that serious!

That’s not true, you have to agree with the "terms of service"…

Yeah but he’s talking about the checkbox before you press download :p

Yeah but he’s talking about the checkbox before you press download :p

Well, that was just my point, also for download without an account, you nee to tick the checkbox…

I never used it to upload stuff, but for downloading, I love it as much as I loved Megaupload.

Soooooo… tick the &#@�ing box and be happy… 😉

I think that, as long as it works, everyone on this board should use it. Fast upload/download speeds with no waiting time and files always available, so no need for re-ups. And the account creation only takes 10 seconds.

Soooooo… tick the &#@�ing box and be happy… 😉

LoL you make me look like a nagging idiot….so may be I am 😉
Usually I’m very pragmatic, but you know, I like a nice discussion on things that people take for granted very easily.

That’s why I keep going on….many people that react (thanks for that by the way), don’t see the point I try to make…only talk about the upload/download speed. And that fascinates me…
Tango…I’ll stop… ok? 😀

I’ve been using MEGA extensively in the past few months (100 GB uploads and counting, also many downloads) – and the few intermittent problems I had with it (downolads freezing after a few %, uploads slowing down, then just quitting) were all due to an update to the Firefox plugin that was necessary but not announced automatically (neither by Firefox nor by MEGA itself) – after updating, everything is working perfectly so far. In Chrome 28+., also no problems.

I think the claims by many here that they CAN’T use MEGA are just whining and have no place in reality. Some say "It only works with Chrome" – That’s crap, but even if it were true, why not install Chrome and just use it for that single purpose, up/downloading with MEGA, and for nothing else. Frankly, what’s the issue here?

Mega works perfectly in JDownloader.

The biggest issues here is that no one goes into details why it doesn’t work for them.
We also have an extremely huge English-barrier that results in little communication.

For most people who say they need a "decryption key" doesn’t really seem to be the real issue.
Most people who post their MEGA links will post the full link with the decryption key included.
It’s one of the options of choosing which type public links you want to generate and share.

I did see one person not include the decryption key. That is a legitimate reason for it not working.

But MEGA will download the whole file in the browser (Chrome) first and then decrypt it before allowing you to save to your PC.

Why no one gets into JDownlaoder is beyond me.
A lot of links can be handled by JDL.

Then there’s always the issue of country/regional restrictions or even ISP restrictions.
Which is understandable, but not everyone clarifies if that is the issue or not.

Score people are not like Game people.
So many of the uploads over in the game section are so technically magical.
The explicit details in the work is overwhelming.
The knowledge.
The understanding.
The willingness to learn.

The only issue with MEGA I have is that the speeds vary from time to time.
It’s like Netload.
Sometimes downloads go by very fast while sometimes it just slows down to less than 50kbps.
Why? No clue.
Maybe the servers need maintenance. Maybe the servers are overloaded with traffic.
I did observe with Netload that when speeds are very low, that enabling multiple downloads from the same host will somehow increase speeds drastically.
How many connections per file makes no difference.
It’s a matter of how many parallel downloads are active.
Which is weird and I can’t understand what’s going on there, technically.
I would ask someone at Netload but then they might want to know which links had difficulty and then block the downloads as they are most likely pirated content. :/
You win some and you lose lots.

I got an account with them and uploaded, the files are still there!
I tried to download them again because I lost them on my externals and they went slow.
Waited a few days and tried them again, and magically the speeds were back to extremely fast. :itsamystery:

I like MEGA, FWITW.
But I’ll use ZippyShare here to avoid any of the monstrosities of complaints and zero-technical-feedback.

Frankly, what’s the issue here?

Well if you read the start of the thread, you can see that I (at least in this discussion) don’t care -at all- about the technical performance… I just wanted to know what people think about privacy issues.
ticking a box where you agree with quite a long statement, that usually no one reads..

MEGA’s statement on users’ privacy is similar to those of any other file-hosting websites…. Don’t really have a problem with it, personally.

Well, I’ll try to go into as much detail as possible with the issue I’m encountering most with MEGA (aside from the random freezes), perhaps some will actually pay attention to what I write this time, and may be able to help. This would actually be the third time which I say this, but something seems to get lost/ignored by some, so I’ll try to explain myself better, with a step-by-step list of my actions.

0) I compress the file. Format doesn’t seem to matter: .zip, .rar, .7z… The issue showed with everything I’ve tried.
1) I check, as usual, if the archive unpacks successfully first. Everything works, I go on with the upload on MEGA.
2) The process finishes. I do a test download of the file from their server. The resulting item ends up corrupted. Subsequent retries have the same thing happen, I can safely rule out problems during the download.
3) I grab the original archive (the one I created prior to the whole thing), and try to upload it somewhere else… RapidShare, MediaFire, FileSmelt… Pick what you want.
4) The archive which I grab from those websites is completely fine, no errors to report. This leads me to think that: – My file is fine; – My PC and RAM work as they should; – So does my Internet connection, – Something on MEGA randomly decides to screw up; – MEGA isn’t as reliable as some make it look.

I can testify for at least 32 users which suffer the same problem, and tried to contact MEGA’s staff without receiving answers.

ticking a box where you agree with quite a long statement, that usually no one reads..

Well then, READ IT! And you gotta be kidding. We’re living in the age of NSA. They KNOW what we’re up- and downloading anyway! As long as there’s no party strongly interested in litigation (and they won’t be since we’re a fringe group anyway), nothing will happen.

E.g. NONE of the old Megaupload uploaders was ever brought to trial, as far as reports go.

Well then, READ IT! And you gotta be kidding. We’re living in the age of NSA. They KNOW what we’re up- and downloading anyway! As long as there’s no party strongly interested in litigation (and they won’t be since we’re a fringe group anyway), nothing will happen.

E.g. NONE of the old Megaupload uploaders was ever brought to trial, as far as reports go.

Thanks!
Well I have read it, no one was brought to justice, true. Still, you see, at least in europe, those parties come that at strongly interested in litigation. Also litigation is changing….

2) The process finishes. I do a test download of the file from their server. The resulting item ends up corrupted. Subsequent retries have the same thing happen, I can safely rule out problems during the download.
3) I grab the original archive (the one I created prior to the whole thing), and try to upload it somewhere else… RapidShare, MediaFire, FileSmelt… Pick what you want.
4) The archive which I grab from those websites is completely fine, no errors to report. This leads me to think that: – My file is fine; – My PC and RAM work as they should; – So does my Internet connection, – Something on MEGA randomly decides to screw up; – MEGA isn’t as reliable as some make it look.

That is odd. I’ve not had that issue yet *knock on wood*.
I suppose they’ll be more inclined to answer you if buy their premium service.

RE: the privacy statement…
i don’t really care. how different is it from any other file hosting site?

and why single out Mega.co?
Surely others such as MediaFire (who has a history of rapidly destroying your uploads and account(s)) or even Netload (where you need to double-archive everything and password protect) deserve equal attention and concern.

do you have an issue with Mega specifically?
were you targeted by your ISP and lawyers for using Megaupload when it going through its legal battles?

the only reason to be paranoid over it is because of Megaupload’s legal past.
if you feel unsafe and a potential victim of a government abduction (the likes of "V for Vendetta") then don’t use it.

My file is fine; – My PC and RAM work as they should; – So does my Internet connection, – Something on MEGA randomly decides to screw up; – MEGA isn’t as reliable as some make it look.

Again, RAM PROBLEMS. Have you actually tested your RAM or have you decided it’s fine on the basis of "other sites work OK"? I’m actually trying to help here.

It’s obviously *not* (once again) a "random screw up" at Mega.co.nz otherwise a) more people would be experiencing it, and b) you wouldn’t have 99.999% of people saying they’d *never* had a problem. I’ve been using Mega every day since they opened and never had *any* problem of *any* kind, with the sole exception of day one when nothing worked for anybody.

How come their "random screw up" didn’t hit me? Or 99.999999999% of Mega’s other happy three million users? Have I just been exceedingly lucky?

From what you’re saying, it’s failing every single time. For me, it succeeds every single time. We are both using Mega, but we have different computers.

Logic, my friend… LOGIC! 🙂

If you upload something to Mega and somebody *else* downloads it, do THEY receive a corrupted archive, too?

Do you notice any correlation between file size and likelihood of corruption? (IE, bigger files get corrupted more often?)

I have explained this before but suspect I’ve been ignored: When you upload something to Mega, the ENTIRE FILE is loaded into RAM, encrypted by your browser, and uploaded. When you download, the encrypted file is download – again fully into RAM, decrypted, then saved to your storage device. This is a process no other host uses. Mega does so out of necessity. When you upload to Mega, *you* (meaning, your browser) have to encrypt the file before sending it, otherwise you’d be sending them an unencrypted file. As things stand, they store your (encrypted file) and the decryption key, which is itself encrypted using your password as a key. Mega do not have the ability to decrypt your file, because they don’t have the key. When you upload something and get given the decryption key, your browser is coming up with that for you locally.

I think your files are getting corrupted DURING THE ENCRYPTION PROCESS – ie, by your computer – and are then being received by Mega intact. There are a thousand reasons this could be happening and top of the list is RAM. I do not believe they are corrupting your files because, as previously stated, why are they *always* corrupting your files, but *never* mine?

Memtest86 (http://anonym.to/?http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/memtest86.html) updated recently to 4.3.2.

There’s also Prime95 (http://anonym.to/?http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/prime95.html) (v27.9)

———- Post added at 07:07 PM ———- Previous post was at 07:05 PM ———-

Also, what version of your archive software are you using? Is it up to date?

If you’re using a Beta version, WinRAR has beta 8 out and you should read the bugfixes over the past Beta versions.
Some severe issues regarding encryption.

I tried to run tests of the RAM, no issues with it according to results… Besides, if I had problems with RAM or my computers, I’m fairly positive I’d get the same screw ups by other websites, too, given how the issues would be within my ‘machine’, but as things currently stand only MEGA fucks it up like this from time to time. I suspect the problem isn’t related to the OS/Software I’m using: I don’t trust Beta releases of software, in fact the only Beta release I’ve installed is an old version of Exact Audio Copy, but that’s because the most recent one apparently has problems handling a few of my CDs which get correctly ripped by the old version.
I’ve switched to the other PC with an updated Windows 8 & company, problem happens there, too. Other users which download the "corrupted" archive have it corrupted also on their end.

This is something which I’ve forgot to specify yesterday, I sincerely apologize for this, the issue doesn’t come up every time on my side… The same file may work correctly even on MEGA, but I usually have to upload it three~four times. I must also say that the decryption seems to work correctly, the temporary "randomname.mega" file which I get while downloading later becomes the archive I’ve uploaded, with matching filesize, but it just doesn’t extract successfully, or even open.

Look, I don’t want to give the impression I have a grudge with MEGA, I still like it and I’d like to provide folks with good download speeds, but this issue combined with my shitty upload speed (47~50 kbps) isn’t really having me look forward to potentially waste an extra 3-4 hours of my time when trying to share.

This is a weird problem, with an unknown cause and so I don’t pretend to have a solution. But my guess would be to look in the area of your internet connection.

Something you may want to try is to inspect your internet connection properties. If not already done, uncheck both "Client for Microsoft Networks" and "File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks" as these are an unnecessary additional burden on your network (unless you’re actually using them). The firewall settings are probably all right as you manage an upload from time to time. Something worth trying is when you start an upload, don’t do any other activity on your computer.

Also make sure you’ve got disk space on your main drive. If you’ve downloaded a lot from MEGA, copies of the files are kept in a folder (for Firefox) "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\ind exedDB\https+++mega.co.nz". You may want to delete these to free up space.

my shitty upload speed (47~50 kbps)

Have you tried a TCP/IP Analyzer test?
SpeedGuide.net :: BroadBand Tools (http://www.speedguide.net/sg_tools.php)

In short, my problem is that I’m usually forced to re-do the upload multiple times to have the same file stored correctly on MEGA

@theone2000
Thanks for the suggestions, I’ll try to disable Client for Microsoft Networks and the Printer one, I think I still have those enabled. I can’t find the mega.co.nz folder in "indexedDB", is it something which gets created and used on the fly, while downloading from MEGA? I’ve even tried to do a search of the system which included hidden paths, but nothing came up. I currently have 12 GBs left on C:, should be enough.

@Sparktank 2.0
I just did and this is what I’ve got now:

� SpeedGuide.net TCP Analyzer Results �
Tested on: 2013.08.26 04:27
IP address: 79.40.xx.x
Client OS/browser: Windows Vista (Firefox 23.0)

TCP options string: 020405a20103030201010402
MSS: 1442
MTU: 1482
TCP Window: 66332 (multiple of MSS)
RWIN Scaling: 2 bits (2^2=4)
Unscaled RWIN : 16583
Recommended RWINs: 63448, 126896, 253792, 507584, 1015168
BDP limit (200ms): 2653kbps (332KBytes/s)
BDP limit (500ms): 1061kbps (133KBytes/s)
MTU Discovery: ON
TTL: 113
Timestamps: OFF
SACKs: ON
IP ToS: 00000000 (0)

TCP options string = 020405a20103030201010402
MTU = 1482
MTU is somewhat optimized for broadband. If you’re not on a PPPoE DSL connection that limits packet size, consider increasing your MTU to 1500 for optimal throughput.
MSS = 1442
Maximum useful data in each packet = 1442, which equals MSS.
Default TCP Receive Window (RWIN) = 66332
RWIN Scaling (RFC1323) = 2 bits (scale factor: 2^2=4)
Unscaled TCP Receive Window = 16583

In Windows Vista, unless "TCP/IP Auto-Tuning" is disabled, only the Current TCP Window is displayed. Use the latest TCP Optimizer for tweaking.
RWIN is not fully optimized. The unscaled RWIN value is lower than it should be. Also, RWIN being close to and above 65535 does not justify the header overhead of enabling TCP 1323 Options. You might want to use one of the recommended RWIN values below.

RWIN is a multiple of MSS
Other RWIN values that might work well with your current MTU/MSS:
63448 (up to 2 Mbit lines, depending on latency. MSS * 44)
126896 (1-5 Mbit lines, depending on latency. MSS * 44 * 2)
253792 (2-14 Mbit lines, depending on latency. MSS * 44 * 2^2)
507584 (8-30 Mbit lines, depending on latency. MSS * 44 * 2^3)
1015168 (25-60 Mbit lines depending on latency. MSS * 44 * 2^4)
bandwidth * delay product (Note this is not a speed test):

Your TCP Window limits you to: 2653 kbps (332 KBytes/s) @ 200ms
Your TCP Window limits you to: 1061 kbps (133 KBytes/s) @ 500ms
MTU Discovery (RFC1191) = ON
Time to live left = 113 hops
TTL value is ok.
Timestamps (RFC1323) = OFF
Selective Acknowledgements (RFC2018) = ON
IP type of service field (RFC1349) = 00000000 (0)

This is the data shown on my router page:

SNR Margin

Download 20.4 db

Upload 26.0 db

Line Attenuation

Download 15.8 db

Upload 13.9 db

Data Rate

Download 8128 kbps

Upload 476 kbps

I don’t know what to think, I had this connection and values ever since 2004… and I repeat, the new MEGA is the only website which currently gives me this problem…. I’ve encountered something similar with MediaFire, in the past, but that was actually an issue with its new uploader.

Firefox 23.0

Have you tried MS IE or Google Chrome with Mega?

That is so odd that Mega is doing that.

LSK: Care to link me to something you uploaded to Mega that’s corrupted? 🙂

I’ve deleted items which were there uselessly occupying space. I’ll try to use Google Chrome when I get back home.

Personally I love mega. I feel in love with the simplicity.

for corrupting files could you also using winrar recovery – 3-5% recovery has working every time for me.

Is it something to do with specific countries?

Mega is the best hosting site I’ve come across and most definitely a faster one. I’ve had zero problems with mega in all the time I’ve used it…basically a crap tonne of times!

LSK: Care to link me to something you uploaded to Mega that’s corrupted? 🙂

I’ve deleted items which were there uselessly occupying space. I’ll try to use Google Chrome when I get back home.

Yeah, definitely post a link here for us to test when you can.
We’ll report back if we experience this issue on our end too.

How can we help LSK understand that the problem is at his end?

WITH SCIENCE!

By downloading and reporting if we get the same corruption.
He might be able to upload to Mega but not download from mega.
Let us rule out one thing at least. :smrt:

Well, we’ll get the same corrupted file, because the file got wrecked on the way up. I believe he’s getting corrupted uploads AND corrupted downloads (even if he downloads something you or I uploaded which we’ve verified isn’t corrupted)… Unless I’ve been misreading…

No, it all seems very likely.
But seeing is believing and it helps to troubleshoot if others are indeed getting corrupt downloads (from LSK).
Because so far it seems he’s only testing his own downloads and not getting feedback from others (downloading from him?)

For all we know he could be uploading well but downloading poorly.

Here’s a test file I uploaded if anyone can download and test for me.
No recovery added.

Daft Punk & Joseph Trapanese – The Grid (Instrumental) (with normalization)

https://mega.co.nz/#!XANhCITA!L-qiSGkSuY1PmJc8scpxbXRDpspi_MgUc6gsF6dHP7k

password: sparktank

Anyone willing to provide feedback, you too LSK, please fill out short questionnaire:

Successful download?
Successful extraction?
What browser are you using?
What’s your ISP promised speeds?

no problem arrived at all, as i am using it from many time and its now of great to service me

I wanted to hear the track you uploaded – nice. These are my results.

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. FF 20.0.1
4. Speed at time of d/l was a bit low at 8.5Mbps today (max potential is 21Mbps)

This is all completely pointless from a technical perspective… but nonetheless…

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. FF 23.0.1
4. 80Mbps – file was too small to accurately measure download speed. I usually get between 60mbps and 80mbps from Mega.

Nobody else is getting corrupted uploads or downloads because nobody else has LSK’s faulty computer. 😉

This is all completely pointless from a technical perspective… but nonetheless…

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. FF 23.0.1
4. 80Mbps – file was too small to accurately measure download speed. I usually get between 60mbps and 80mbps from Mega.

Nobody else is getting corrupted uploads or downloads because nobody else has LSK’s faulty computer. 😉

LOL…yeah those Atari 800XL’s aren’t the best thing to navigate the inter-web these days.

This is all completely pointless from a technical perspective… but nonetheless…

I’ll be transitioning from Zippy to Mega since the file sizes allow more than 200mb. (and general consensus shows positive feedback here)
So if anyone has anything to say besides country restrictions, I’ll be able to say they should have participated in this little pseudo-test. :smrt:

Also, anyone who downloaded, how was the normalization?
I just used SoX (−−norm=−3) normalization when (-m) mixing the stems.

I’m thinking of trying out Foobar’s EBU-R128 for normalization.

I think I’ll create a new thread for that though.
For my portable.
Playback on PC is easy with ReplayGain.

my opinion of MEGA is that it is the worst file sharing one can experience. usually i have to try 4 or 5 attempts as it freezes half way. the other day it took 6 times! and i have a pretty good connection.

PLEASE abandon using MEGA all..

my opinion of MEGA is that it is the worst file sharing one can experience. usually i have to try 4 or 5 attempts as it freezes half way. the other day it took 6 times! and i have a pretty good connection.

PLEASE abandon using MEGA all..

LOL..what a comedian!

Seriously though what browser are you using and what type of system, Fisher-Price,PC, Mac?

PLEASE abandon using MEGA all..

Hi. Please take the time fill out my questionnaire. 🙂

my opinion of MEGA is that it is the worst file sharing one can experience. usually i have to try 4 or 5 attempts as it freezes half way. the other day it took 6 times! and i have a pretty good connection.

PLEASE abandon using MEGA all..

If you encounter problems by downloading through a web browser, try with JDownloader instead.

A personal endorsement.

MEGA works very well here. The benefits as I see them are that the system is fast and reliable (sympathies to those experiencing problems), there’s no need to solve captchas or jump through other hoops, no ads popping up every time you click on something, no dodgy exe files to run in order to download, all files are securely encrypted (and can stay so until the keys are shared at one’s discretion) and the data doesn’t get taken down (from current experience).

PLEASE abandon using MEGA all..

"Everybody immediately stop using this absolutely fantastic service because I have unresolved issues with it!"

my opinion of MEGA is that it is the worst file sharing one can experience. usually i have to try 4 or 5 attempts as it freezes half way. the other day it took 6 times! and i have a pretty good connection.

PLEASE abandon using MEGA all..

You’re going to have to PLEASE a bit harder than that. I often use a 3G internet connection when I’m oot and aboot. That’s an added layer of complexity and even then no problems whatsoever – as with Sparktank 2.0’s test download yesterday.

Copy/paste from a diff thread:

Also JDownloader 2 BETA (http://anonym.to/?http://board.jdownloader.org/showthread.php?t=37365) works magic with Mega.

My only complaint about MEGA is its terrible support for browsers other than Firefox. When using Safari, it snarkily quips "try switching to a MODERN browser’, which is ridiculous. Barely works in Chrome as well – just seems to have some kind of issue with WebKit-based browsers in general.

That said, otherwise it is quite excellent, and definitely preferable to shit like Uploaded.

My only complaint about MEGA is its terrible support for browsers other than Firefox. When using Safari, it snarkily quips "try switching to a MODERN browser’, which is ridiculous. Barely works in Chrome as well – just seems to have some kind of issue with WebKit-based browsers in general.

That said, otherwise it is quite excellent, and definitely preferable to shit like Uploaded.

I only use Chrome in fact I believe that Mega recommends Chrome as the browser of choice and have never had any problems.

People that use Uploaded should be banned from the forum, the only reason they do is they hope to generate some revenue from the downloads of their posted files.

I think mega is good at this point. I like the ability to import a file till you can DL it. I had trouble with files stop DL’g and using the import helped me out. I don’t mind
Chrome as long as they stay out of my buisness. And that includes the government. Mega won’t work for me unless i use Chrome.

I use chrome and don’t know mega is incompatible with orther web browsers, but i think it pretty good.

I only use Chrome in fact I believe that Mega recommends Chrome as the browser of choice and have never had any problems.

People that use Uploaded should be banned from the forum, the only reason they do is they hope to generate some revenue from the downloads of their posted files.

I am getting the same freezing issues in Chrome that other users have been reporting. Also, Mega sometimes complains my drive is full when it isn’t. No matter, though. Just means I do my downloading in Firefox for now.

My problem with Uploaded (and other services like it) is the terrible user experience; all in service of pushing more adds or a subscription. Shudder.

Mega is shit

Mega is shit

So’s that Star Trek film you’re in! 🙂

"I think of it as a bucket of piss to drown rats in. That’s all. Anybody doesn’t like it can kiss my ass"…

…No, In all seriousness, it’s the best thing since…

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Successful download? yes (7 seconds)
Successful extraction? Yes
What browser are you using? Google Chrome 29.0.1547.62 m
What’s your ISP promised speeds? 80Mbit (I get 76)

EDIT: HOWEVER…running the file through FLAC tester reveals it has an error.

it works, but sometimes the decryption error, aways happens on big files.

Someone get this one… does not work for me. "File Too Large"

http://bit.ly/13UToRT
Password: lip_my_stockings

As long as you have a secure email, a good unique password, and the ability to not forget it…. its the bes file server imo. It is the torrent killer.

I’ve not used MEGA yet; I rarely used Megaupload back when it was live. It just didn’t jive with me. I -did- use Rapidshare, but that was before they changed how it works.

I haven’t used it often, do to it having a lot of issues with older hardware, and a few browser incompatibilities. Other than that I haven’t noticed anything too bad.

it alright i miss the old megaupload though

I’m happy with it so far. No Annoying Pop Up like most of them so far. Fast and reliable. Most of all it’s free.

I’ve down loaded using it and never had a problem yet. The main problem is not enough people are using it.

Mega is great although I maxed out my free account and use Mediafire these days mostly.

Well, that’s the thing right there, Woody. I have yet had a link deleted, therefore I will eventually run out of room, so will have to start deleting older links. Media will not let me have an account, theyve deleted me twice due to complaints. I could use mirrorcreator. But that’s the point, mega is so stable I will have the issue of no room….

Anyone notice recently there’s now "Pro" upgrades available?

There’s 3 different plans you can pay monthly or annually.
There’s a monthly bandwidth cap now for all accounts.

what is bandwidth cap set for?

Anyone notice recently there’s now "Pro" upgrades available?

There’s 3 different plans you can pay monthly or annually.
There’s a monthly bandwidth cap now for all accounts.

The Pro accounts have been offered since about day one as I recall, I have not heard of a monthly bandwidth cap however, that’s a new one on me.

Pro accounts since day one, and bandwidth limits since day one too. I understand that it’s not a cap – there are no limitations except at times where server bandwidth is running out; at that point, your "additional allowance" would come into play.

Never had any issue with it.

It’s functioning.

It works for me,

Unless i go mad and turn into a Yannis the 50 Gb limit should be more than enough 🙂

My upload sucks anyway (merely 80-100 kb per second)

edit : got my issue fixed.

I guess I’m like Yannis in that respect I’m at 94% Capacity on my Free Account with Mega and have turned to Mediafire of which I’m presently at 37GB of my allocated 50GB.

Still waiting patiently for that early Birthday Gift of a Premium Mega account.

I’t works very well though the upload speed can be a bit slow.

Hmmm… I now can’t get links for my current uploads without signing up (fair enough, I have most of the links stored on my iPhone notes which allows me to cut/paste/respond to requests fairly quickly). However, I’m told if I log out of my "ephemeral" session my data will be lost. Well that’s me fucked. Is there a way to migrate my current uploads to a pro account?

After a few glitches a couple of weeks ago, all is well with me. A few details of the user interface have changed. Upload speeds for me are great. Usually 5 min or less for a typical album. I have not maxed my account yet, but I tried Wild wood’s suggestion and opened a second account no problem. Just keep a log of usernames and passes, and you should have no real account number limits.

I’ve noticed that sometimes older uploads on MEGA just STOP working, even though the actual files are still in place. This is a classical music share (Charles Camilleri) from my mega thread:

https://mega.co.nz/#!6koHBJiT!cOTF-wILEXcrGSdl0CMC6w3NT6sK1rOqVEIz6de9_DI

The file is there, but clicking on it produces a "temporary error" message. Only, the error isn’t temporary!

Interesting I haven’t run across that problem as of yet and I have quite a few files with Mega at the moment.

You’re absolutely right… it’s happening with some of my older uploads too – some, not all. Time to contact support, methinks…

I’ve noticed that sometimes older uploads on MEGA just STOP working, even though the actual files are still in place. This is a classical music share (Charles Camilleri) from my mega thread:

https://mega.co.nz/#!6koHBJiT!cOTF-wILEXcrGSdl0CMC6w3NT6sK1rOqVEIz6de9_DI

The file is there, but clicking on it produces a "temporary error" message. Only, the error isn’t temporary!

It shows it’s downloadable now.

Mega could have been migrating servers to new servers or something which could have been a 24 hour process or so.

I prefer it over MediaFire, Depositfiles, etc. Not as good as its predecessor, but it’s a pretty decent file service.

Been having too many issues with mega recently (some downloads just won’t start) : switched to mediafire for my own stuff.

I only use Mega for my Uploads and I have no complaints from anyone.

I don’t do a hell of a lot downloading from Mega but I did get a Temporary error today with a download link.

Update: Link worked fine.

I now have no problems with Mega as of this writing.

I have no problems at all. Anything I have tried to dl has worked fine. Smooth sailing. I have had one or two reports of the temp error on files from members, but have not personally experienced it.

Still got a handful of old links not working – I’ve been getting "temporary error – retrying" on this file https://mega.co.nz/#!9g4HzBRS!G535PWicx3iFtgPvy0kfHiyxQU9WPAVcqejok4A 8dNs for weeks.

This worries me to the extent where I wouldn’t want to store my highly valuable personal data there… but anybody who’s putting valuable data in the cloud full stop should really have a backup plan or three… even if we weren’t talking about a Kim Dotcom service! Cloud’s fantastic until the server goes down, government arrests the CEO, data centre burns to the ground, company goes skint… then you’re instantly fucked.

…But, that’s one fuckup in thirteen months. Uploads are fast, downloads are fast, most people are able to get the files, my files never get taken down, I don’t have to split RARs or obfuscate filenames or any of that old crap. In the great big scheme of things, this barely even qualifies as a problem. (Mediafire, anybody?)

i am too working on it for a while and it has been smooth functioning yet .. nothing worries

I’ve been getting ‘temporary error–retrying’ on every file on every browser (IE, Chrome, Firefox) for awhile–in fact ever since kim dotcom made his first appearance. The man must have something against me, whoever he is. 🙂

Some of the MEGA’s servers seem to be acting up for me:

Case #1: The download freezes at 100%.

Case #2: Let’s imagine a file has a size of 100 MB. Now, even though the download~progress bar normally reaches 100%, I end up with an incomplete file [83 MB, sometimes 97]

The two issues above appear to be temporary, I usually need to retry the download again (and again) for everything to work correctly. I’ve been getting the "Temporary error, retrying" thing on my own files, too, but they work again after a few days.
Whatever’s their problem, I hope it gets fixed soon.

You’re right, usually "temporary error" goes away after a day or three. On rare occasions it seems to never resolve.

I sometimes find that some days, it’s working better with Chrome and some days better with Firefox. It’s a pain in the bum. Worth it, though.

Funny how I was just saying how great Mega is and has been and now the last two days I have had terrible U/L speeds.

Now I don’t have great internet 1MB/ul but I usually average about 120KB/s upload but the last two days it’s been like 30KB/s and only with Mega.

Anybody else have that problem lately?

I give it a 7.5 of 10

I had some crappy upload speeds a couple of weeks ago, but it passed pretty quickly…

Yeah right now I’m getting speeds at my normal upload speeds so it was just a brief problem on my end for some reason.

I give it a 7.5 of 10

What would you recommend instead? Thanks.

i think is fantastic.
as long as they dont start implementing "premium" bullshit.
still reminds me of that time i read a guy bought a lifetime account two days before the fbi shut down megaupload.