The two most popular choices I see here for hosting Roms and other files that can not be saved to the ftp seems to be Rapidshare or Megaupload. I personally would like to see some more people look into www.putstuff.com
A few positives I see compared to the other two are much faster download speeds, no download limit, no wait downloads.
Feel free to post your opinions and suggestions.
Thanks
Dont take it the wrong way. But are you affiliated with them in any way.
Torrents, rapidshare, and putstuff would be my votes. I can't stand MegaUpload (I can't tell you how many times I've clicked a link for something there and wait the 1 minute or whatever it is, only to be told I'm maxed (when I haven't downloaded anything) and I will NOT use their bar tool).
Torrents are very easy IMO
Rapidshare I can tollerate now that I found I can put http://anonym.to/? infront of the URL and it will work through my VPN (this does not work with megaupload).
Putstuff seems fine. I was sort of wondering the same thing if trojan9x has something to do with them. No biggie, but was something I was starting to wonder.
no, not associated with them.
I only found them about a week ago when trying to host a file for someone here (the faria 3.3 camera patch). It worked flawlessly so I wanted to share it since I never had seen anyone use it here before.
Anyone else?
I vote for every host other than Rapidshare...It's ip filtering and waiting time kills me...
Downloaded CM 7.2 RC1 today and found the torrent they posted. How would people here feel about torrents for ROM's on XDA? Could sure speed up things for people when a new ROM is posted.
With the way upload sites are nowadays, I'm game for anything.
I wouldn't mind either it probably would be a lot faster
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Im unfamilar with torrents. Do they work similar to on a linux system where you can enter a command and pull from someones github?
I agree, Id like to see some torrents. but from experience, you would probably need to have a good amount of seeders to have good DL speeds
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I agree, Id like to see some torrents. but from experience, you would probably need to have a good amount of seeders to have good DL speeds
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Yes this is true this would only work for the Hot top ROM's and only if people got into the game with it. I do hope some of the Dev's Jump in I would seed all the top ROM's right now with permission if given. This is not to replace the normal download links just to give people more options when sites like hotfile are dog slow or can't be reached.
I would love this. Not sure how to make one though. I use FrostWire (no, I don't download illegal music, don't worry ) for my torrents. They really do help.
Second this, i find torrents much easier expecially when internet/os is shaky. And UTorrent uses soooo much less memory than chrome
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Im unfamilar with torrents. Do they work similar to on a linux system where you can enter a command and pull from someones github?
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Simply, a torrent is data about a target file, though it contains no information about the content of the file. The only data that the torrent holds is information about the location of different pieces of the target file. Torrents work by dividing the target file into small information chunks, found on an unlimited number of different hosts. Through this method, torrents are able to download large files quickly. When a client (the recipient of a target file) has initiated a torrent download, the chunks of target file that are needed can be found easily, based on the data from the torrent itself. Once all the chunks are downloaded the client can assemble them into a usable form. Note: the torrent must be completed before it can be assembled into a usable form. This differs from conventional internet downloads which have only one host and are usable even if the file is incomplete.
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Hope that helps.
TL;DR: It basically lets you download the ROM faster than a conventional http:// download. You would have to use a torrent program, such as uTorrent or BitTorrent.
Also, to answer your question...no.
Torrent Fu from the market had been rock solid for quite a while. The remote login setting can be extremely can be handy when your on the move.
Here is sone info about the port forward.
http://torrent-fu.com/getting-started/
I've been enjoying a medley of roms through the XDA forums for a little over a year now. While I'm always appreciative of the hard work others do for the community, I often wonder, what is it about androidfilehost.com that makes it a popular upload location for so many people? The download speeds for me from this site (and its mirrors) are so slow compared to just about any other, which make it a bear for downloading large roms, and some uploaders go so far to upload there and request no one mirror/re-upload anywhere else.
I get that if you sign up for the site you would expect better speeds, but as a free upload site for distribution, it seems pretty mediocre in terms of speed. I'm not intending to knock the site or anyone whatsoever, just looking for some additional info on why a seemingly slow site is so widely used.
I'm sitting here waiting for a ROM to finish downloading from one of the androidfilehost mirrors and I'm wondering the same thing. It looks like there's 6 mirrors hosting the file I want, and all but one of them don't seem to download any faster than ~250KBps. One starts out close to 1MB but quickly drops to 300KB. I don't get it. Is there some kind of ad revenue or incentive for the people hosting their files there?
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I'm sitting here waiting for a ROM to finish downloading from one of the androidfilehost mirrors and I'm wondering the same thing. It looks like there's 6 mirrors hosting the file I want, and all but one of them don't seem to download any faster than ~250KBps. One starts out close to 1MB but quickly drops to 300KB. I don't get it. Is there some kind of ad revenue or incentive for the people hosting their files there?
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I think the reason most use is bc its secure probably wont be shut down like some of the other hosting sites, and the amount of mirrors available in the states
I agree,
If the developers make money of the link to AFH than i understand, if not then i do not understand the uploads to AFH.
Now downloading 500mb rom wich is gonna take 2 hours to complete on a 100MBit fiberline.
Already had one disconnected download in the past,
3 hours!!!! of downloading and the last 1% it failed?
Unreal frikking slow downloads why not upload to usenet also?
I know not everyone has a payserver but it wouldt make it a whole lot easier.
standby... searching for mirrors....
I have been waiting 10 minutes for this to connect to a mirror. Haven't had any luck.
Tried:
Different browser
Different computer
Different network
Different file on AFH
Disabled Symantec
AFH is garbage!
Second that....AFH is very very slow and frustrating
I have tried downloading roms from there and now at multiple instances downloads failed after 50%. 50% of which was downloaded at speed of about 21 kbps. which is way less than any other download i do (above 300kbps).
Isnt it better to host ROMs torrents which way downloads can be better managed.
Please consider this.
Read this article:
https://www.xda-developers.com/androidfilehost-interview/
it sucks balls, but the benefit is at least the links stay alive for a loooong time. I'd prefer mega or mediafire, though
androidfilehost, sometimes I have to try for hours to download a few megabyte file, sigh
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it sucks balls, but the benefit is at least the links stay alive for a loooong time. I'd prefer mega or mediafire, though
androidfilehost, sometimes I have to try for hours to download a few megabyte file, sigh
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Nah! Mega will double the time of a download. Not worth it imo
Yeah.. I agree.. It continuously freezes, ROM downloads constantly fail with a network error, and Chrome always shows me a message of: "Your connection is reset."
I extremely hate AFH!! Mega or Google Drive would be much, much better. (Whatever, Google Drive is the best ever.)
felixlee0530 said:
Yeah.. I agree.. It continuously freezes, ROM downloads constantly fail with a network error, and Chrome always shows me a message of: "Your connection is reset."
I extremely hate AFH!! Mega or Google Drive would be much, much better. (Whatever, Google Drive is the best ever.)
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Google Drive is okay, but not when you live in Iceland (i used to) anyways XDA should setup a torrent website, so they you can download files WAY faster.
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Google Drive is okay, but not when you live in Iceland (i used to) anyways XDA should setup a torrent website, so they you can download files WAY faster.
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Yeah.. sometimes torrent shows full download speed whereas downloading files in Chrome sometimes has speed drops, but I'm kinda worried about the negative effects of Torrent..
When I leave the seeding after the download is done, are my private files uploaded secretly to other websites?
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Yeah.. sometimes torrent shows full download speed whereas downloading files in Chrome sometimes has speed drops, but I'm kinda worried about the negative effects of Torrent..
When I leave the seeding after the download is done, are my private files uploaded secretly to other websites?
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That depends on the torrent you use.
Don't EVER use torrents that allow you to buy a pro version.
Try qbittorent which is free and recommended by many people.
If anything, try to avoid µTorrent as this will install bloatware along with advertisements and sharing public info.
Just do research and you will be a-okay. If you don't trust me for whatever reason use a VPN or a free anti-virus/malware like Bitdefender free antivirus edition.
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That depends on the torrent you use.
Don't EVER use torrents that allow you to buy a pro version.
Try qbittorent which is free and recommended by many people.
If anything, try to avoid µTorrent as this will install bloatware along with advertisements and sharing public info.
Just do research and you will be a-okay. If you don't trust me for whatever reason use a VPN or a free anti-virus/malware like Bitdefender free antivirus edition.
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I'm currently using Qbittorrent, and it works like a charm. It keeps me an excellent, consistent and stable download speed. I already know the disadvantages of utorrent such as dropping speed and worse stability, (and ads) so I changed to Qbittorrent as I read a blog post suggesting the benefits of using Qbittorrent. But I recently saw some articles that important files have been leaked out to the web when the seeding (100%) is turned on for a long time.
Files are still being uploaded from my PC when it is on.
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I'm currently using Qbittorrent, and it works like a charm. It keeps me an excellent, consistent and stable download speed. I already know the disadvantages of utorrent such as dropping speed and worse stability, (and ads) so I changed to Qbittorrent as I read a blog post suggesting the benefits of using Qbittorrent. But I recently saw some articles that important files have been leaked out to the web when the seeding (100%) is turned on for a long time.
Files are still being uploaded from my PC when it is on.
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Ah! Well, my files have never been breached, but if you really are that paranoid, then right-click the file when it says 'seeding' and press 'delete.' A dialogue will pop up if you want to save your file make sure, 'delete file from hard disk' is not checked. (It isn't by default.)
Can't the staff apply a rule like "AndroidFileHost must not be the only download location for all your works" to all forum posts ?
It becomes insane year after year, I'm downloading around 50KB/s (I can go up to 1.3MB/s) and it even stops sometimes (and if I'm very unlucky it can completly crash too). I forgot to add that you can download... only if it finds a mirror for you (sometimes I have to refresh up to 3 times the page to get the only Québec available servers that are slow as f***).
Very ironic by the way to see in the XDA's website creator interview that he has created AFH because others were a bit slow.
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Can't the staff apply a rule like "AndroidFileHost must not be the only download location for all your works" to all forum posts ?
It becomes insane year after year, I'm downloading around 50KB/s (I can go up to 1.3MB/s) and it even stops sometimes (and if I'm very unlucky it can completly crash too). I forgot to add that you can download... only if it finds a mirror for you (sometimes I have to refresh up to 3 times the page to get the only Québec available servers that are slow as f***).
Very ironic by the way to see in the XDA's website creator interview that he has created AFH because others were a bit slow.
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AFH and XDA are closely associated, being a Recognized Contributor, Recognized Themer or Recognized Developers here at XDA even gets you a free "developer account" with unlimited space at AFH just for being a recognized member. Obviously, the Recognized members would use that to store their developments and share their work here, just because it's convenient and free.
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Personally I think AFH as one of the biggest **** ever when it comes to download bigger files. It is not only slow but often breaks downloading. What a piece of garbage compared to the Google Drive.
Oh god, it's slower than dial up...
At this rate it'll take full 24 hours to download 1 GB, assuming it won't drop this download alltogether. There are no slower places to host a file in the whole world by now. Literally anything is better than that tarpit...
Oh yes, now it stopped completely for a whole 2 minutes without a single bit dripping from there... Great! Just great...
And it just keeps doing that.
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And now it dropped before 100MB. Again.
AFH is totally and completely useless.
What's the use of being convinient for uploaders and developers when it's totally useless for downloaders? It's like dropping your work into a black hole, /dev/null
Anyone experiencing SUPER SLOW downloads today? Trying to get a 2.4 GB File and it looks like it might take a few days!! I would be happy to pay for pro if I was guaranteed to download off a faster server but it doesn't really specify that in their Pro Version.
I can't get the towelroot.com download link to work.. I tried on my phone... My computer and my girlfriends brand new 1 hour out of the box S5
Need a link please
This is what happens when I try to download it.
Don't use Chrome.
You could use Firefox (handles downloads well), but imo it's pretty big (though I love the addons like ghostery).
So I use CM Browser because it's tiny (1mb) and, while it used to be confusing where your downloads went, its download mechanism has improved a lot recently. I get apks using it all the time. I think they're accessible through the three dots prefs menu.
(And I'm sure people would tell you a million browsers that are great, like Dolphin, which handle downloads well; just saying Chrome sucks at it. I think you have to have a Chrome plugin that Google gives you hate warnings about JUST to download apks. Google wants you downloading apks from their store; that's really all it is. I can't remember the name of the addon but you could try to look for it, too, if you don't want another browser.)