Poll: If we were to allow Depositfiles as an approved host?.............

[yhcpl01]

Uploaders and downloaders have different opinion , depends who phun will choose to privilege .
For uploaders, you could make a poll for any host they would say yes as far as they have an affiliate.

-As an uploader I would ask for oron , I use it myself on my blog, but honestly I really dont like oron files, too many limitation for both free and premium user. Really wouldnt like to see oron on phun.
-Bitshare shoulnt be considered for even a single second, site very slow, often down , one of the slowest dl speed. And even for uploaders it seems it work painfully (slow file manager, stats not counted , upload issue etc...)
-Depositfiles for myself is the slowest host at the moment for more than a week now, long waiting time for free users. To me its same as Oron, without dl limitation for premium users.

Deposit has a limit 20 gb per day for Premium Accounts, but speeds are quite good. Besides, you can easily get Gold-Keys. Oron is only good for you if you have Premium account (I do ).

Bitshare isn't an option at all.

[brianbell25]

As this thread was created for the discussion to allow Depositfiles here at Phun, it's quite alarming to hear about the recent rumors that Depositfiles has deliberately slowed down Free user speeds to 30kbps or less. Basically, Depositfiles is doing what Rapidshare is doing by dramatically slowing down Free user speeds. While there's no official word from Depositfiles about this, I decided to test it out myself.

I decided to test the speed of Depositfiles yesterday at various times to see if this was the case. For each of the speeds, I used the same file downloaded and allowed the file to download for a 10 minute period before canceling the download. Here are the sample speeds within a 24 hour period:

5:00pm 20kbps
6:30pm 20kbps
10:00pm 30kbps
11:00pm 35kbps
2:00am 24kbps
3:00am 30kbps
9:00am 25kbps
11:0am 20kbps
12:00pm 20kbps

I dunno if this is a temporary thing, but if it's something that's going to stay with Depositfiles, not only do I vote to disapprove the addition of Depositfiles, I HIGHLY disapprove if it's the ONLY filehost added.

As a long time depositfiles downloader and uploader, I can tell you from my experience especially recently, that the slow d/l speed is somehow directly related to the file. I have had multiple files in my download manager que and one of them will be as you described above and then the others good a decent speed for free users of around 200-300 kbps. Why it works that way I honestly don't know unless it's somehow related to the locale of the person who uploaded the file. Here's a screenshot of my download manager of a file I'm currently downloading as a free user from depositfiles:





As you can see it's a very decent speed for a free user.

[mokkoriman]

As a long time depositfiles downloader and uploader, I can tell you from my experience especially recently, that the slow d/l speed is somehow directly related to the file. I have had multiple files in my download manager que and one of them will be as you described above and then the others good a decent speed for free users of around 200-300 kbps. Why it works that way I honestly don't know unless it's somehow related to the locale of the person who uploaded the file. Here's a screenshot of my download manager of a file I'm currently downloading as a free user from depositfiles:





As you can see it's a very decent speed for a free user.

You're right, BB... I just tested Depositfiles with that same file you listed above... was going about 250kbps. Which means it could be locale as you suggested, or it could be how recent the file has been downloaded/how busy the links are being downloaded. The file you listed has been up since May of last year, while the file I was testing was uploaded a couple days ago. Which makes sense - if a bunch of people are going to download one file, everyone is going to experience slow download speeds.

So, it's probably safe to assume that if DF gets approved here, any new uploads on DF are going to be a pain to download. Sucky.

[Hamsterslapper]

I've used Depositfile as a free user and found it generally has crap download speed. However, I agree with the others that it's one of the only good choices at the moment.

My biggest concern is not so much download quality, but quality of posts. For the last year or so Phun has been overrun with shitty cashwhores, and I hate to see anything that will encourage them to proliferate here.

[brianbell25]

I've used Depositfile as a free user and found it generally has crap download speed. However, I agree with the others that it's one of the only good choices at the moment.

My biggest concern is not so much download quality, but quality of posts. For the last year or so Phun has been overrun with shitty cashwhores, and I hate to see anything that will encourage them to proliferate here.

The thing is depositfiles no longer pays users that reside in the USA. Now sure we have users outside of the US, but I think a majority of the posters here reside in the US, which means there's no financial incentive for them to use depositfiles.

[helena17]

When end of poll?

[yhcpl01]

DepositFiles is overloaded right now, people say they have more visits per day than Rapidshare did. The speed for free users is around 10-20 kb/s...

[Pilin]

i got around 100 - 150 kbps from depositfiles as free user, so is not that bad

[GetYaCakeUp]

depositfiles used to be cool but laetly they've been capping their speeds too
mediafire and minus are the fastest at the moment

[karate!]

hey mods, when do you end this poll?
just say allow or not
until you don't have better idea, alloe DF, if something will change in the future, you'll change your decision too


p.s.
it will be great for me if you allow netload too

[slimer]

please approve hellshare

[mokkoriman]

please approve hellshare

... which is blocked in the US.

AWESOME RECOMMENDATION!

Tool.

[yhcpl01]

... which is blocked in the US.

AWESOME RECOMMENDATION!

Tool.

What is more, only available in PL, SK, CZ.

[boobsjuggsdotcom]

approve depositfiles and please make a vote for filefactory also because filefactory also survive when most of filehosting down.

[mambos]

Disapprove depositfiles they blocking accounts with money without no reasons so i think better is bitshare!!!

@boobsjuggsdotcom filefactory upload is only for premium users so this is nothing like a scam!!!