When Mega Limited was launched, over 100,000 users signed up within the first hour. Within the first day, there were a reported 1 million users with an average of 60 uploads being completed each second. At the end of the first three days, Dotcom announced they were successfully transferring over 500 uploads per second.
Despite its seemingly overnight success, there were issues with the service in early days of usage. Slow upload speeds and login problems plagued new users. However, those issues have reportedly been resolved. Although some consumers still have speed issues, which could be due to the amount of files being transferred at one time.
Today, Mega has over 15 million registered users with an average of 350 gigabytes of bandwidth used. The service has also recently announced a secure chat add-on known as Mega Chat, a rival of the popular Skype. This offering is reportedly completely secure and allows users to talk via the computer without fear of outsiders eavesdropping on their conversations.
We decided to take a look and see if the site is as good as it promises because the company boasts the best security in the cloud and offers a whopping 50GB of free storage.