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[Benchmarking] Average Network Speed of some of the Popular File Hosts

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Well, I have a download speed of 11 MBps (Megabytes per second) and an upload speed of 6 MBps, and here's my benchmarking of all the hosting sites I tried as a "Free User":

Download Speed
More than 1 MBps
Rapidshare: 10.6 MBps
MediaFire: 10.3 MBps
MegaUpload: 9.8 MBps

Less than 1 MBps
Hotfile: 768 kBps
FileServe: 600 kBps
FileFactory: 378 kBps
FileSonic: 300 kBps
BitShare: 295 kBps
Uploading: 259 kBps
FilePost: 147 kBps
FileJungle: 122 kBps
UploadStation: 80 kBps (might having issue in the nodes... cuz its unusually low...)

Upload Speed
More than 3 MBps
Hotfile: 6 MBps
Rapidshare: 5.4 MBps
MediaFire: 5 MBps
FileSonic: 3.6 MBps
FilePost: 3.6 MBps
FileServe: 3 MBps

Less than 3 MBps
Uploading: 2.8 MBps
FileFactory: 2.8 MBps
BitShare: 2.5 MBps
FileJungle: 2.1 MBps
UploadStation: 2 MBps
MegaUpload: 600 kBps

Hope it helps! :sun:
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P.S. The results might not be accurate ;) and its "average" neither maximum nor minimum.
 
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You can´t compare like that. You will always have more speed at some hoster which server are located in your area :facepalm:
 
newshit said:
You can´t compare like that. You will always have more speed at some hoster which server are located in your area :facepalm:
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I have already mentioned that the results are not accurate :P
and yes, most of the servers of these hosts (except RS) are in USA...
 
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what is the point of posting this other than I get X speed at blah blah server and X speed at Blah blah server. ?

The speeds you get at your location can be completly different than someone 1500 miles from you.

If you are looking for a fast server for your connection, this is the right way to do it. Instead, many just ask "which server should I buy"? Want works for one may not work for someone else in terms of speed.

What are you going to do with this informtion anyway?

"hope it helps". For who?? I would not care to use this information at all unless you lived in my basement, then we will have similar speed results.
 
I just compared the speeds of different filehosts from a fixed location and shared the variables.. I've already mentioned that it might not be accurate...

and I guess you are confusing speed with ping... because I have checked the speed with speedtest.net from 20 different locations (Texas, Florida, Amsterdam, Torronto, Singapore, Brazil, South Africa, UK, Italy, India, Bangladesh, China etc) and all of the download speeds were same (except for BD and three others) and only the ping was different.

What am I going to do with the info?
I just chose my file host with this info...

"hope it helps".. for who?
For those who'll find this helpful :P (I guess its not for you ;) )
 
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this is a good reference for those who wanna make their downloaders happy with the download speed.

this thread will get better if anyone from other locations can post their results too so uploaders will get the idea which filehost will give the best speed for free user. :)

ps: please test more filehosts (eg: Uploaded.to, Freakshare.com)
 
Pretty useless, because these benchmarks are only valid for your location.

And I am surprised about the upload speeds of Megaupload and Mediafire.

It is generally known that these hosts have very low upload speeds (not exceeding 500-600KBs).

I've uploaded to them from 1Gbs server and still got low speeds. Like to see screenshots.
 
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