Comments on: MediaFire needs to get their shit together http://blog.eliduke.com/2009/07/01/mediafire-needs-to-get-their-shit-together/ Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:05:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mediafire Series http://blog.eliduke.com/2009/07/01/mediafire-needs-to-get-their-shit-together/#comment-7150 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:51:00 +0000 http://elisfanclub.com/?p=816#comment-7150 Mediafire has upgraded to a 200 Mb limit, if you want anything bigger and you have the money to go pro, I’d suggest Fileserve.

If you can’t afford a premium account with Fileserve, why not try Megashares, they have a 10 Gb limit per file for free users (at the time I’m writing this).

I would like to say though that in my opinion Mediafire is quite good, especially where it concerns free users (and I would suggest you only use it as a free user). I’m going to sound like a marketer now but with a free account you get good download speeds and resume capability.

I’m going to use Fileserve as an example. Let’s say we are sharing a 3 Gb download with the world, we upload it to Fileserve and share the link, now many can’t download the file because of the size limit for free users, some cannot afford a premium account and others don’t have the means to pay for one.

If we split the file into 200 Mb parts and upload it to Fileserve, everyone can now download, but wait, they don’t offer resume capability or anything close to a good speed, wireless users with unreliable connections may be at 99% of a download only to see the connection drop meaning they have to start it all over again. That’s not only a waste of time but a waste of the bandwith cap most wireless users have.

Mediafire offers decent download speeds and resume capability at the cost of a small file limit. If it’s really that big of a problem, why not just get the popular open source software, jDownloader which will handle all 15 parts of your 3Gb file automatically.

]]> By: mysoogal http://blog.eliduke.com/2009/07/01/mediafire-needs-to-get-their-shit-together/#comment-6980 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:26:57 +0000 http://elisfanclub.com/?p=816#comment-6980 mediafire.com are a bounch of crooks and liars, the Free account and mediafirePro accounts have the same downloading speeds

even if you pay for a pro account you get the shity free account download speed, what a sucker paid to get a free account. pretty stupid anyways

just advice for anybody else, you better of buying a cheap VPS with 500 GB bandwidth then hosting on mediafire.com

]]> By: eli http://blog.eliduke.com/2009/07/01/mediafire-needs-to-get-their-shit-together/#comment-6895 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:50:31 +0000 http://elisfanclub.com/?p=816#comment-6895 Ok, so I looked into it a bit further, and (despite the syncing and stuff) MediaFire is still a better deal. Check it out:

http://www.getdropbox.com/pricing

vs

http://mediafire.com/mediapro.php

The MediaFire Pro Account is about half the price of the mid-range Dropbox account and it gives you UNLIMITED file storage, 10GB per-file uploads, and all sorts of other goodies.

Again, there is no “syncing” involved with MediaFire, but that’s not really what I’m after. I’m after being able to store large files and have unlimited space.

But again, thanks for the input.

]]> By: eli http://blog.eliduke.com/2009/07/01/mediafire-needs-to-get-their-shit-together/#comment-6894 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:37:47 +0000 http://elisfanclub.com/?p=816#comment-6894 Awesome. Thanks for the heads up. I just watched the “video tour” on their website and it seems pretty freakin stellar. I’ll give it a trial run. Oh, and by the way, *I* use OSX. :)

]]> By: Josh Drizin http://blog.eliduke.com/2009/07/01/mediafire-needs-to-get-their-shit-together/#comment-6893 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:12:57 +0000 http://elisfanclub.com/?p=816#comment-6893 Sounds like you should look into using something like Dropbox. No silly restrictions on filesizes and I know it integrates seemlessly on Windows and Gnome-based desktops (and presumably OSX, but who uses that?)

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