Very interesting viewpoint.

You may indeed be right. Certainly I think the way of the standard file hosts is going the way of the dinosour!

But I want to move away from the topic reward scheme. They are not relevant to download speed. As you mentioned, there are number of legit file hosts out there that DO NOT offer typical reward schemes. And indeed, they have good FREE download speeds.

The question of this thread was, what speed is acceptable? Seemingly there are great number of opinions in this matter.

Media fire, I suspect make money NOT from downloaders, but from their other products. If that is indeed the case, why do they care about super fast download speed for their free users?

So does this ultimatly mean that downloaders do not drive the market for filehosting sites?