I actually bought a "premium account" for a download site.

[Ziggy Zigzagoon]

...more specifically FileServe.

Yes; a lot of people here can sympathize with me, downloading huge ISOs (and ROMs) behind those download sites that require you to put in a captcha, then wait some more for your ticket, then download only one part of an ISO at a time for quite a long time with no opportunity to resume the download, then wait some more time until you get a ticket to be able to download another part.

Since I was going to download a lot of ISOs (Wii and PSP), and I recently acquired a PayPal account, I decided to just take the plunge. I bought a 30-day premium account for around $10 on FileServe (since most of the ISOs are hosted there).

So far, I have no regrets. I mean, I can actually download more than one part at time! I got Dokapon Kingdom in around 2 hours (which would have taken about 8 or more the old way)! I am downlading de Blob right now, things seeing that I can have the whole thing before midnight!

(By the way, I have around 200 GB of hard drive left, so do not worry.)

If you have a lot to download at once, then this would be worth the dare. (Your results may vary by download site, however.)

P.S. I am going to buy very cheap Dvorak sticker for my keyboard. The "homebrew" ones are wearing out,holes appearing at the "e" and "t" stickers.

 

[Hells Malice]

Great investment if you can't find torrents for most of the games you want.
I only had that problem with PS2 games, and thus bought premium for a site I don't remember that hosted like 10 games I wanted.

 

[Elvarg]

Thats great i guess but i have other ways.

 

[8BitWalugi]

Huh. I have a premium account or two that I share with friends. JDownloader + Premium = Win.

 

[nryn99]

hmm. having a premium account does have advantages. but i prefer to get something with the least possible amount of money.

 

[Elvarg]

Huh. I have a premium account or two that I share with friends. JDownloader + Premium = Win.

i used my friends mega upload premium account i was downloading this thing 1gb he told me to download the manager first i did and the download was like fast AS.

 

[Fudge]

I use Megaupload (non-premium) and torrents to download my games. With MU + Jdownloader I can usually download around 600kb/s (around 3-4 hours for a 360 game) and around 1MB/s with torrents (around 2-3 hours for a 360 game, assuming theres seeders).

 

[notmeanymore]

Nice dude. I personally would rather get into one of those "private trackers" that everyone's obsessing about. I got into one particular site, but the amount of good downloads and seed/peer ratio is about equal with The Penguin Bar. (Idk if saying the names of these is okay, but seeing as I did a search for them and actually got results, I'll assume it's alright.)

 

[neveras]

I have megaupload, but it's twofold, I use it to stream tv shows + all of my downloads so it's well worth the couple of bucks a month.

 

[yoitsme]

I have a hotfile account with 2 months left but just about all the sites that I use stopped uploading to there since the "increased copyright enforcement" a week ago. I'm debating between fileserve or filesonic. Seems like fileserve is gaining ground in the past week but I also see many links to filesonic on my sites too. Still undecided.

 

[Elvarg]

I have a hotfile account with 2 months left but just about all the sites that I use stopped uploading to there since the "increased copyright enforcement" a week ago. I'm debating between fileserve or filesonic. Seems like fileserve is gaining ground in the past week but I also see many links to filesonic on my sites too. Still undecided.

yeah mega upload is damn fast with downloading with a premium account but files get removed x10times faster on it.

 

[tj_cool]

I usually use MU Happy Hour if I need to download big stuff.

I'm usually not at home during happy hour though >.

 

[cocomonk22]

The thing about buying premium account for one site is it is only good for one site.

FileDownloader.net allows you to buy credits which work with multiple file hosting sites.

 

[gifi4]

I just use torrents from a private tracker, usually have everything and fast too, the only thing I don't use it for is anime, I have a few sites where I can get MU and MF links plus a few DDLs, so...yeah.

 

[Trulen]

I'm surprised no one's mentioned newsgroups.

I pay 11 dollars a month for newsgroups. I've had it for a good... Two years. So I've essentially paid over 200 dollars to pirate!

But, always reliable.
One large site that gets EVERYTHING.
Always maxes your download speed. Always.

I love me some newsgroups.

 

[nando]

i get newsgroups for free with my internets account.

 

[Kwartel]

I download Wii-games from megaupload and use jdownloader to download it without paying attention. There is a guy who is a freaky hippy (this hints to his name) who uploads them. You can find him easily trough google. I hope this doesn't interfere with the rules.. If it does, please remove this..

 

[Stevetry]

i have premy mega upload

 

[awssk8er]

I (Well, actually my brother) pay for a newsgroup site. With a free account, you can't download things over a few weeks old, and there's a cap on downloads.

It's $15 a month for more privacy, unlimited downloads with no cap on speed, and downloads on anything on the site.

It's actually amazing. I would never be able to go back to torrents.

 

[nando]

on my free account i do have a cap, but the cap happens to be just slightly slower than my internet speed anyway os not a big deal. but that doesn't matter since i use my sister's free account simultaneously. i have a retention of 400 days.

as an emergency, i pay for a 25gb per year account = 5 bucks with a 750 days retention in case i find something i can't download for free.