Fileserve/Sonic

[Funkin']

Which one of these hosters are better for downloading from as a free member? It's been a couple months since I've really used public DDL forums, and now I notice that most people are uploading to these two hosters.

I'm sure both only lets you download one link at a time, and has a wait time between each. But which one has the shortest wait time between links, fastest speeds, and lets you download the most daily?

There's a couple pretty big album rips that I want to grab that has links to both servers. Fileserve's faq implies you can download pretty much all you want daily, while Filesonic's faq mentions nothing about a daily limit(unless I'm being blind).

Thanks for the help.

Looks like you have to manually enter the captcha's into jdownloader with both hosters. That blows.

[heiska]

FileServe is better for freeloaders. Both use recaptcha, you can get around it with jdownloader and captchatrader:
http://board.jdownloader.org/showthr...ight=recaptcha

[anon]

I'm sure both only lets you download one link at a time, and has a wait time between each. But which one has the shortest wait time between links, fastest speeds, and lets you download the most daily?

It's been a long while I don't download from Fileserve as a free user since I have a Premium account, but if memory serves me well, they were both relatively equal in those regards. Maybe FS was a bit faster. If I remember correctly, you had more or less the same speeds as me, and using a free account will "guarantee" you at least 400KB/s, so it may be a good idea to create one.

I'm a fan of using my netbook as a small-scale NAS, so when I had no accounts I just looked for captcha-free mirrors and left jDownloader leeching those overnight instead. I didn't know about that thing heiska posted, but with my laziness I don't think I'd have bothered either

[Funkin']

I read about that captchatrader over at the jdownloader forums, and they were saying something like you have to either buy credits or manually enter captcha's for credits. Either way, if it's true, it's not really a good solution for me. Because like anon, I'm lazy.

Thanks for the info though guys. Guess I'll just download manually from either of the two.

[aww123]

If links of both file hosted are available, why not dl from both. I mean alternatively.

[anon]

If links of both file hosted are available, why not dl from both. I mean alternatively.

Ever heard of "interchangeable links"?

That's what they're there for.

[aww123]

I dl a lot so I got the Filesonic lifetime premium acc. At that price I think it's a steal.

[anon]

I dl a lot so I got the Filesonic lifetime premium acc.

You should hope Filesonic doesn't suddenly change their policies, making uploaders decide it's no longer worth it (as it happened with Hotfile), because in that case you're mostly screwed.

[Hologram]

Yup, usually filehosts as they become more and more used they tend to introduce such things as download limits, lessen the worth their uploader reward system, etc. Rapidshare and Hotfile are perfect examples, buying lifetime account is not a good investment if you ask me.

[aww123]

It's truth indeed. The world's changing real fast. I hope Filesonic would learn from the mistakes of Rapidshare and Hotfiles and not to ruin their (and my) investment.