Mega can also be used for collaborations as it has a live chat option. But this feature has some serious glitches. Mega has built its application solely to focus on its safety, and they have surely succeeded. There are very few clouds in the market that offer end-to-end encryption. Mega guarantees it is zero-knowledge storage, which means that no data is sent to the Mega server. Another bonus that the encryption service is available for users to enjoy for free.
Mega or any other server cannot get a peek at your data without your permission. Mega uses a nifty bit AES encryption protocol for all your files that are not being used and a TLS encryption protocol when you are transferring the data.
Several times your files are in danger while the files are being uploaded or downloaded. In that case, the Mega Downloader tool by 4Hub comes to your assistance.
But these protocols ensure that no harm is caused to your records, no matter what the status of the document is. As we mentioned, Mega has two-factor authentication systems that provide another layer of protection. This is the field where Mega has received some backlash. However, before installing and running this application on your computer, you should bear in mind some considerations. First of all, it is important to choose well where you get your installer from.
A quick Internet search for the term MegaDownloader is enough to verify that there are hundreds of pages that provide the download of its official installer. However, you should only use reliable software repositories, that analyze the packages they distribute and that offer reliable downloads.
In Malavida, you can download MegaDownloader from our own servers safely and easily. Secondly, you must choose carefully the files you download using MegaDownloader. Therefore, we recommend that, before starting a download, you be completely sure that the chosen link comes from someone you can trust.
However, there are some points about user data that you should be aware of. Its privacy policy states the service may hand over user data to advertisers, but the user will remain anonymous. MEGA never has full access to your data, owing to its client-side encryption. Plus, even if MEGA was forced by law to hand over your data, it is all encrypted by its zero-knowledge service. Since leaving the company in , he has made claims that MEGA has been taken over by a Chinese investor, William Yan, who is wanted in China for fraud.
Luckily, all of your files are encrypted, so not even MEGA can actually access your sensitive data. MEGA is somewhat lacking in the customer service department. You can use the help center to find answers to most questions, which are neatly categorized into sections about the various apps and services and further divided into topics.
The help center is fairly comprehensive, and there are image guides for most articles there. The only way to actually contact a customer service representative is through email. It claims to respond within 24 hours, but a whole day of waiting may be too much for some users.
We received a response within six hours of sending our test query. Also missing from its customer support service are phone support and a forum where users can discuss issues among themselves, and live chat would be a welcome addition.
MEGA could learn a thing or two from Google Drive, which has a wealth of customer support options available at all times. Despite all the drama surrounding it, MEGA remains a solid cloud storage service.
With its strong dedication to privacy and security, it is one of the safest cloud services around. You may be better off with a service like Sync.
What are your thoughts on MEGA? Is the drama enough to scare you away, or is all that free encrypted storage just too good to pass up? Let us know in the comments below. Thank you for reading our full MEGA review. Hey, Great! Just be careful to not rely on one single source for your backups.
Will you please go into more detail about your concern and what general set-up you recommend for a complete backup? I want to understand the background regarding your comment. The glitches have locked me out of my account for the second time within a month. Am I permanently locked out??
Lose the password, you can reset it — no problem. Only if you have the encryption key. Lose that too and you are locked out of your account forever. But kudos to Mega, they offered to set me up with a new account with the same email id. Thankfully, I had the encryption key scribbled down in a postit. However few software options presenting currently, but we can expect more soon.
Forget Mega. To test, I created a free 50 GB account and tried to upload a 3 gb file. The same speed that the 56k dial-up modems had about 25 years ago.
Check with your internet service provider. If it was dialup speeds it would take a month to upload that much.. Same problem!!!!!!!!! I shut every other program down and just let Mega run and its taking hours to upload a 7MB file!!!!!!!!!!
Perfect for what need it for — file backups and sharing. I use a dedicated offshore server with mbps connection. Mega is a great service, the only problem with the free accounts are the limits, until they kick in the max speed I got is mbit in download and mbit in upload. MEGA is awesome. Thank you! Just awesome!
Very crazy fast to upload and has the only option missing from all other cloud storage service: we can choose which folder we want to upload to the cloud and not only the default sync folder.
It will add the files to that folder and if the files are the same nothing will happen to that specific file. I got my home movies 4GB range on with a few problems but it worked. No thanks. I tried it today. And with the 50GB free qouta. Trying to upload 50 GB.
It took, whole day to complete 1 GB so far. The performance is too slow!!!!!!!!! Not sure, if its because of encryption. I wish the performance is better to make me use it every day. I am really happy when i got 50 gb bit i do feel not comfortable because next time i might lose it when you say stop free.
If you stop free storage please give time to download all documents. Thanks from khmer2worldwide. Extremely fast and easy to use. Uploading files goes at my max of 1,1 MBps not bits. Downloading goes at like MBps. The size reported for the uploaded file may not mean it has not been stored correctly or completely. The reported size of a file depends on a lot of factors, including the possibility that the web site actually runs compression on the stored content to save disk space.
If you do a bit of reading about how files are stored, you may discover that the reported size on disk may not really reflect the actual number of bytes in the information contained in the file. I shall not go into the extensive topic of how data is stored, but you can research it for yourself. Did you try to down-load the file to your computer in a separate storage location, so it does not overwrite the original and run a comparison with the original?
This exercise might allay some of your concerns… Sometimes a bit of testing and some knowledge about how computer storage is done and reported by a directory listing can help allay your fears. The upload speed for me is great. I use Mega a lot. I use to to store some of my backup pictures, and if I want to bring pictures on a trip to show others. Overall — Great.. Check it out! I loved it… easy upload, etc etc. All the good stuff. No way would I ever use Mega again.
But I do… I downloaded it yet again. But still, I get an error message saying Mega is not accessible for me. Have I lost all the photos I stored there? This is infuriating!! You have to remember the password. If not, please find your encryption key which you got during registration I guess.
What you can also do is reset account. But then it will delete all the data on cloud and create new account with same Email ID.
Firstly, MEGA is by no means a perfect service. It has flaws. My other complaints is that the Sync client is a bit alienating, unclear when it has updated and not telling you what has changed. Even with all these problems I still choose MEGA because of their dedication to security which to me is the most important factor of consideration for cloud storage. Ho all.
I cant understand what are these crazy upload and download speeds? It is extremely fast. Mega is the fastest free web claud. The files stay there for as long as you stay active. That means you have to login once in a couple of months so your account doesnt get deleted from inactivity. Once in 3months. I am using Mega to backup my photos on my computer. I like the ease of the drag and drop feature to upload, and the fact that I can upload whole folders at a time.
There is not further explanation as to what this means or why it will not upload. This is very frustrating, as it is a large amount of files. Please explain why this is happening and is there a way to get these files to upload? Instead of fixing problems your only making things worse, Adding a new interface every time one logs in does fix bugs or problems.
I get little or no support from MEGA at all. Of course their right on you soon as you go over your 50 GB free account, but as for actual problems from a real paying customers, you truly suck! In fact, a mid 19th Century telegraphist is simply not able to transfer your files faster using Morse code than Mega, a cloud storage and file hosting service offered by Mega Limited, an Auckland-based company, as simply even loading the landing page containing the link to the downloadable file would require inhuman amount of work and hours of input and transmission of Morse code from the aforementioned telegraphist to transmit the data contained within the download page to you to achieve even remotely comparable results, thus revealing the lingering fact that just because you lack the technological know-how to operate a personal computer in an acceptable fashion does not mean that the internet service Mega Limited, an Auckland-based company provides would ultimately be lackluster or unusable by the average user.
But I tried a couple of hours later and I was able to upload my files faster than Dropbox or Google Drive. This is actually kind of pissing me off. I wanted to download one item, not put all of my items on the internet. Is there any way to remove them from the cloud and back to my comp? When trying to upload my files, it gets to a stage and says I should free up space on my phone otherwise my upload is disabled. I do not recommend this product.
Secretly autoinstalled on my computer without my knowledge — annoyed me endless pop ups and took an hour to uninstall. This is an attempt to blackmail by annoyance to get you to buy — then punish you with 1 hour delete time. This is bullshit. Do not buy. I am very pleased with MEGA. I have been using the service for seven months with NO issues at all. The transfer speeds have been good in London, Nottingham and Liverpool. A lot of speed transfer issues are to do with your service provider and amount of net traffic they have to deal with.
Perhaps I have been lucky. Kind regards to all. During a few weeks mega is blocked by the Belgium gouvernement. They say it has something to do whit the licence. Can you help me and whole Belgium, using Scarlet as provider, whit this problem? Get real. Add to the fact that your PC is having to encrypt every file before uploading. I established a new free Mega account yesterday, and experienced nothing but troubles in trying to sync the cloud with only a MB of initial data!
Upload speeds were extremely slow taking seconds for 4KB gif files! I was a former user of DropBox, and switched to Copy. Initial setup and syncing for both were a breeze and automatic. Mega is slow and error-prone — I spent the last entire day attempting to have it un successfully sync only MB of files that Copy.
Having done lots of research on the topic of cloud storage, my conclusion is that if you want your files to be completely secure, there are currently few other options as safe as MEGA. I just moved a whole load of files from Dropbox over to MEGA, by dropping them in a folder synced to mega.
Speed was excellent using University wifi in northern England. Last night I checked every folder had the correct number of files.
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