Foxleech review – Quick downloads but no storage
Foxleech is a torrent downloader. Its main feature is to download from multiple file hosting websites from a wide list of supported file hosters. The list covers Rapidvideo, Soundcloud, Dailymotion, 4shared, Filerio and many more. Free users have the selection limited. However, with the premium, you have access to more prominent names in file hosting like Youtube, Rapidgator, Vimeo and Mediafire.
Features
Foxleech also offers torrent downloading, which in the first phase is called fetching. Fetching is done on Foxleech servers by their torrent download client. This feature anonymises your download because your IP is not part of fetching. You order whatever you want, and then the whole thing is done somewhere else, which hides you in front of the eyes of IP trackers or IP monitoring service. If you find any geographically locked torrent content, you can use this to your advantage, because the fact that download is done somewhere else can serve as a workaround in this rare case.
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But it won’t work if the IP of their server can not reach it as well. I put their fetching through many tests with a lot of files with a different number of seeds because fetching speed rely on quality and amount of seeds and on a technology used to download. I can not change Foxleech download clients, which is why I was changing the only controllable variable — seeds. The results shown me that their fetching speed reached 1 MB per second with a file with more than 120 seeds and an average pace for a file with 20 seeds was around 0.1 MB per second. There are average speeds with today’s torrent clients.
File hosting services – Do they work?
I also tried downloading from a few of the free file hosting services. These tests have shown me that downloading from Soundcloud is unreliable and doesn’t always work. 4shared worked as it should, but I haven’t found any acceleration with downloading through Foxleech. Dailymotion sadly needs premium for using. It is also possible to use Foxleech as a Rapidleech downloader to download from supported sites. Rapidleech was very popular in the last years. Currently, a lot of these sites were struck down, and the supply is on its low end.
Storage
After fetching, Foxleech will provide you with a link that redirects you to download your file. Currently, there is no cloud storage, and downloads are not stored in any way. It is possible to fetch a file, and then to lose a link to it, which will deny your access to your file. The design is responsive, which means you can even use it on mobile devices. I tested it with Blackberry Playbook to see if it works on large phone screens, I tested it with iPhone X for iOS and last but not least was my test with Pixel 2 XL as representative of Android devices.
During my testing, the design didn’t look good on mobile devices, but it was functional, which is more important. The sidebar menu is not confusing to use, and if you use Foxleech on phones, it turns into a dropdown menu which is less clear to use. Because there is no cloud, there also isn’t streaming or ways of interaction with your files like renaming them or grouping them into folders. There is also no FTP access or synchronization to your cloud storages like Google Drive, One Drive or Dropbox, which could equalize the lack of storage.
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Download to my location
Let me introduce you to download testing. Speed of download depends only on the connection between your device and Foxleech servers. There is an old saying that the strength of connection could be represented by geographical distance, but this is not the whole truth. There is a lot of small things that influence your download speed. I tested it with a VPN to alternate my location around the world. Europe and North America had an average speed that reached one-sixth on my usual download speed. But as I moved far away, I experienced more and more drops in speed. In Australia, these were more significant.
Conclusion
Foxleech gets 3 out of 5 stars rating for their download and fetching speed. The lack of cloud storage and the flaws of all core functions get 1 out of 5 stars. Their security is 3 out of 5 stars.
In a sum up, Foxleech has an average or slightly below average rating. It has potential, but currently, there are better competitors with more functions. I hope that in the future, Foxleech adds cloud storage.