The answer is "shitty content delivery network (CDN) and/or shitty load-balancing algorithm and/or shitty cache/reverse proxy".
And Occam's razor.
If ONE service is bad, while ALL others are fine all around the world, then this ONE server is the culprit. Period. All things considered, AnonFiles is "correct": the bandwidth limit is consistent, simply I'm not satisfied with it and it's unusable for very big files. NoPy was a rollercoaster with a way too low maximum - unconsistent, therefore not suitable for my needs.
Maybe it was sending the connection through a shitty path, but it was THEIR responsability to correctly route the transfer to a reliable node-chain and not use the cheapest one. Same difference between flying with a normal airline company and a charter with last minute tickets: the first is a direct link with free food and drink, the second takes you through Mexico City to go from New York to Washington (with six hour stopover) and a bottle of warm water is sold 10$ on board.
Maybe their cache handling on local nodes was shitty.
Maybe it was linked to time zone/local time when downloading.
Anyway, I don't care: every other CDN/clouds I use offers a proper load-balancing and decent speed. But NoPy, and obviously extremely cheap services like AnonFiles.
I mean, for example, that Drive seems to be unable to process an AV scan on anything but VERY small files (200 MB seems already too much), and it's not very fast too - rarely above 30 MB/s... Also, I don't like Google, at all.
False.
Mega is a cloud/host provider, with ALSO a web interface. Once synched through the client, you use it like any cloud-connected folder - the same way I use my Amazon, Autodesk, Microsoft, NordLocker or Apple clouds. You drop a file inside, it goes to the cloud, and when a file is dropped directly to the cloud, you'll get it on your disk after the time needed to transfer it.
Successfully got above ONE HUNDRED GB in a row from F95, several times, to ensures you that:
- Quota limit, server-side, isn't account-based, but only IP-based, and it seems that it doesn't mind/check about proxies/VPN. That's stupid - I would be fired for such a huge mistake - but it's how it works anyway. I use only ONE FREE Mega account. I suspect that their business model is mostly based only on professional subscriptions, so they don't care a lot about individuals who get through limits... Others companies (Microsoft, Adobe and Autodesk mostly, but also Qt) rely on the same model and don't "chase" individuals for piracy because once they're used to the product, they push it where they work and then money flows...
- Quota is "account-based" (in fact, "client instance-based"), client-side, ONLY if you forgot to CLOSE the client before switching your public IP address - otherwise, it do not "forgets" that the quota was reached. I mean close fully the client program, with right-click and "Exit" on the icon, not simply reducing it in tray bar. To be clear, it's like that the quota limit is enforced mostly on client-side and not on server-side...
- You can choose to download through client instead of browser - the choice is given for EACH download. You can also import it in your cloud, but it isn't usually a wise thing to do but with huge folders with a LOT of files.
- Client can enqueue downloads and resume them properly, even if closed.
- Client is WAY faster than browser, since within browser, it downloads to RAM before saving - therefore, if you don't have a HUGE amount of free memory, a big download can fail while it never fails through client - if it does fail, it resumes automatically anyway. This "download memory" seems also to not be swappable (maybe a Firefox issue?), so if other programs don't swap themselves, you'll fail to download a big file once your RAM is full. Client download directly to disk.
- I've set the client to use up to 6 simultaneous connections for the same file - my landline could handle that easily - without any limit and also without using HTTP. However, the download queue is processed one file at a time, you cannot use the multiple connections to get several files at the same time.
- I'm here on F95 since mid-2019, I use Mega from the beginning, and I tricked its quota since few days after I start using it. I'm still not banned from Mega. I used their web interface maybe... four or five times? since I registered my Mega account: I rely only on the client. I used it mostly for initial settings, and to get the upscaled videos for "Treasure of Nadia" - that's "just" a 16 GB download, done with 4 tricks to get everything synched to my hard drive - done at 80 MB/s, and 10 minutes grand total because I didn't switched the VPN immediately after limit was reached, due to my other activities on the computer. Synchronization is usually even faster than "regular" downloads, if you have enough cloud space to store it (20 GB with free accounts). And I'm still not banned, BTW, despite I just did it moments ago...
See
my post for details to bypass Mega's quota easily.
I was speaking about putting back the Mega's quota within the discussion, not replying in itself - on the contrary, I appreciate a reply, and not one the next semester, and it would be difficult to scare me with a wall of text...

But if you hadn't read my post, the one I linked just above, then it makes sense to speak about it again... As I said, breaking this limit is a pure joke.