PAF Releases: Request for Alternate Download Mirror

Hi JooSeng,

I noticed that for most of the recent PAF releases, you have dropped mirrorcreator.com as one of the download mirrors, & replaced it with douploads.com.

The other download mirrors as currently supplied are usually: howfile.com, qiannao.com, & sendspace.com.

May I request for mirrorcreator.com to be reinstated ? Or for solidfiles.com, upload.ee &/or zippyfiles.com to be provided as alternate download mirrors ? The advantage of solidfiles.com is that it allows download resume without having to keep the download page open in a tab to maintain the session, although the site may sometimes block certain files.

On the other hand, I'm unable to download anything from the following mirrors:

douploads.com
The site repeatedly loads a new captcha, even though I'd solved the previous one. This is despite allowing session cookies & making sure that no domain is blocked.

qiannao.com
Regardless of when I try to access the site, it keeps showing me this error message: "502 Bad Gateway -- nginx/1.2.0".

I can download from howfile.com & sendspace.com, but would prefer not to (especially for larger files) because:

• the download speed is very slow (~ 70 KB/sec) regardless of time of day
• the connection is unstable & prone to breaking
• download resume is not permitted (although the page session is kept alive in an open tab), & I am forced to reload the download page to initiate a new download that starts again from the beginning

Download links on sendspace.com also tend to expire within a relatively short period of time.

Thanks for your consideration !

[jooseng]

I switch to douploads.com from mirrorcreator.com because download speed of douploads.com is very fast and mirrorcreator.com has too many popup. However I can switch back to mirrorcreator.com.

Thanks for the explanation. So far, using Firefox, I haven't experienced popups at mirrorcreator.com. There is only the blue "Click to view the download links" button, which is a static button.

But if mirrorcreator.com is too troublesome for you & other users, perhaps providing solidfiles.com (or zippyfiles.com) would do.

There's no need to replace douploads.com, if this works for others. Its fast download speed sounds good, but I can't figure out how to get past the captchas. Perhaps it's due to the rapidly-changing dynamic IP address assigned by my ISP -- ie. my IP address would have changed by the time I solved each captcha. I could possibly try accessing the site using a VPN that assigns a static IP address, but the reduced speed defeats the purpose.

I think some other users might be facing problems with the new download mirror(s), because when your PAF apps are shared at Nsane recently, the sharers supplied only your howfile.com link -- which I thought is kind of unusual, because previously, I often saw your mirrorcreator.com & upload.ee links being shared most frequently by international users.

Thanks !

[jooseng]

upload.ee is good but the biggest disadvantage is it can only upload one at a time. You may know that I often have many files to upload everyday. douploads.com is disallowed by Nsane. Nsane classified douploads.com as a money making server.

Other than neverending captchas, I don't know what else happens at douploads.com. But based on what you said, I assume this is a multi-upload mirror.

I just saw your latest PAF releases now have mirrorcreator.com as one of the choices again. Thanks for restoring this mirror.

Maybe setting the browser to block all popups (which is the setting on my Firefox browser) would help prevent user from seeing some or all of the mirrorcreator.com popups.