crustlord12 : Yeah, right, too long. But I'm like alex2011, I usually always reply, and I too don't mind to write walls of text... But I think that everything is covered now:
alex2011 , you'll tell me.
Experience. It's not a matter of ONE IP node, these are heavily controlled because they aren't used by only one service. It's a CDN problem, and that's under the control of the company owning/using the CDN. Experience speaking. When you hear hoof noises, think "horse" first, not "zebra": it's the essence of Occam's razor. I had once a problem of performance issues with a 19" bay filled with CPU cards: ONE card were dropping packets... Without any surprise, it was a faulty NIC. But when one other time I got random dropped packets, I directly checked the distributing algorithm - without any surprise too, there was a bug there. And when it's only ONE rack who got problems, you check the interconnection: 99% of time, the problem is here.
I don't even trust "trusted sources", for my part, I scan everything whatever happens... And I don't trust Google's AV anyway. But this is a SYMPTOM: I cannot trust a service that cannot even scan an archive that has, nowadays, a common size.
It is IP based - proxys IP being ignored, because shared. The quota limit seems to be really enforced ONLY on client-side, and on server-side it's quite a joke.
If your download don't resume after switching to a VPN connection, you probably forgot to close - REALLY close - the client before switching the connection.
When I switch, I usually chose another country, rather than another town in my own country, will probably do the trick switching to another state within USA. It's probably something about using another Mega node and a non-replicated/non-centralized quota limit table... Maybe they can't centralize it because this particular machine would be hammered, maybe their replication algorithm is too slow, I don't know but it's obviously unreliable.
Have you ever heard of an individual being sued by Microsoft for a pirate version of Windows? They don't care. They care, sometimes, about Office. They don't care much about Visual Studio. They care A LOT about IIS, however, and about Windows Server. And they care A LOT too if you make profit by selling illegal copies, obviously. When you crack Windows/Office, through KMSPico for example, you'll get some minor inconveniences - some elements aren't working properly, but I highly doubt that anybody would notice it not a computer professional. That's why I have a fully licenced Windows for MY computer (a Pro version, of course, even with BitLocker and so on), and a cracked one for my wife's one. She don't need the same things as me.
If you have a cracked Windows, you'll obviously be used to Windows... So you'll ask to get it at work, too - then MS will probably sell a full set of licences, including server licences, plus a Gold MSDN plan. Once you have Windows, you'll ask for having Office, probably with Outlook too - another set of licences. Bonus if you require Visio. And as a developper myself, I won't switch to anything but Visual Studio when working on Windows... Another licence... All these licences can be yearly, and they REALLY are controlled and enforced. They earn a lot of money because they let individuals using a "Pro" version of Windows instead of a "Home", or even a fully cracked version. They don't "lose" money, these people wouldn't had bought it anyway - even more relevant with Adobe and Autodesk products, way more expensive than Microsoft's ones. That's how, in my company, we have CATIA, AutoCAD, AND SolidWorks: each people asked for the software they were used to... Young engineers were used to one of them thanks to a cracked/educational copy. All these licences are yearly, with support: good move for letting a 18 yo geek using a cracked version he would NEVER be able to buy, don't you think?
It's probably the same here for Mega. They care if you host illegal stuff, of course. They care if you obviously use it for business. I highly doubt that they care about bandwidth itself - for individuals, I mean, I doubt that they are so lenients with a business subscription costing 25.000 USD per year... If my company ask for advices for a third-party cloud service, I would propose one from those I use at home... Including Mega, obviously.
Of course, if you don't manage to break the quota limit like I do, you'll upgrade your account - free meal for them. But it's very unlikely that they would hunt for some gigabytes that weren't used otherwise...
Yeah, and? It's still not a browser download, and all the traffic (including negotiation) is redirected to the client - because you may only want to enqueue the download, after all... You could even have used a MegaCmd script to get it without using your browser. It's nothing different than a link to a CDN: you reach a page that chose the "best" server for you, and the fact that some CDN start automatically the download isn't relevant.
No host providers used here offers real, direct links: it's always a CDN or equivalent. Being logged to Mega isn't a problem too, it stays logged across sessions if you want it - and since I use it only for downloads, I don't care to keep everything logged. My PC isn't shared, I'm behind physical protections, so I'm rarely anxious when checking the "Remember me" box... My really important services, like my bank, disconnect me after five minutes anyway, and everything of any importance is with 2FA... And if I'm anxious anyway, I have a VPN with a kill switch function.
This kind of ban is automatic. In no way it's decided by a human being: they ban first, AND if you make a valid claim, they restore your account and apologize. Way easier.
BTW, most people don't have a static IP, so the ban will last from 24 hours to 7 days. Even your IPv6 isn't static, usually. My external IP changes approximatively every two weeks, because optical fiber, but at ADSL time, it was every 24 hours... And on each connection at PSTN modem time. A static IP is an expensive option - around 100 euros per month in my case, so it would more than double my phone/cell/internet bill. And you can still use a VPN to get a new IP address anyway... BTW, Mega don't rely on IPv6, but on IPv4 - since both breaking the limit AND spend a brand new quota works with a VPN which don't support IPv6.
If you can't make a new account somewhere, it's more probably a cookie problem rather than an IP problem. Your internet box is maybe able to renew its lease to your provider and change its external IP, for example, to avoid waiting for too long...
Again, storage is a thing, bandwidth is another one. Storage needs physical hard drives, therefore you must pay them. Bandwidth is "free" (but electric power used) if your lines aren't fully used: you'll pay the same price for an unused TB connection and a 90%-used one, excepted the light electric consumption involved. Is an unused road less expensive to build and maintain that an heavily used one? Of course not... This is the bandwidth. But if you need to build car parks each mile - and ones that are able to get ALL the traffic parked - then it will cost you your firstborn's soul... This is the storage.
As I said, if I wasn't banned in two years, it won't happens until they implement a REAL quota limit. It's still not the case, two years after. I'm breaking the limit each week, and EVEN if they enforce this quota checking, then I'll be limited too with ANY VPN connection I could use: why should I be banned, since I was properly limited by an efficient algorithm? There is absolutely no risk here... And if it becomes really unavoidable, THEN I'll look for a standard (non-free) account, OR I'll offload the downloads to my NAS like I do for torrents - I have possibilities that most users don't have, so I won't be forced to keep my PC running just for a download.
Until then, it
WORKS. So, do as you want, it's not really a problem for ME... I said it already, but I'll get the archive in no time without being forced to endure a slow transfer rate, or several hours of waiting for a quota, or several DAYS of waiting for a torrent - or, worst, don't get the archive at all because stubborness or impatience.
No problem.
