IBM Aspera Connect

Enables high-speed Aspera transfers.

Total ratings for IBM Aspera Connect

1.65 (Rating count: 66)

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Pros

Works fine.

Cons

Rarely works
Terrible terrible experience
Total garbage!
Annoying having to download software to receive transfers
Terrible customer experience and UI
Screwed my PC.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Terrible functionality, no fixes or stability improvements

Most mentioned

Does not work
Terrible
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Recent 25 reviews for IBM Aspera Connect

Recent rating average: 1.24

All time rating average: 1.65

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Timestamp	Author	Comment
2023-05-31	Marcin M.	Forcing people into some weird extensions for file upload. This could have been a popup window...
2023-05-18	Gabriel Ninô	It works, but it's too much trouble for just downloading a file. I use it only when my clients for some reason use Aspera when more simple alternatives work just as well.
2023-04-03	Jason Germain	As(s)-Pera. Aptly named after the developers.
2023-03-31	Alejandro Pérez González de Martos	Agree with Vicente E. Mejias
2023-02-09	Grace Hayes	Rarely works
2023-01-27	ki x	cant connect its been a week trying to figure this out. lame af
2023-01-22	Matteo Curcio	besides the Chernobyl 1986 User Experience, it does not work. Upload keeps failing with cryptic message. It would be a bad joke, yet it's real. I'd like to time machine myself in the meeting room where the CTO announced to the room: "we're going to manage our traffic with ASPERA!"
2023-01-17	Cenk Yıldırım	Probably steals your data. I am forced to download this app for freelance work, just to download a file. Which makes no sense. It also wants a desktop client. Uninstall each time after your downloads and scrub for viruses.
2022-11-25	Agenda Bronwen	Terrible terrible experience. I have wasted so much time trying to get my browser to detect the extension. This is agonising.
2022-11-22	Satyajit B	This is the worst piece of software I have used in my life. What use is high speed transfer when you end up spending 10 hours getting this piece of trash to work
2022-11-18	Alan Yeats	Never works as expected. Always has problems and still need an additional download
2022-11-16	Denis Abrantes	This sucks. Why do I need a browser extension TO DOWNLOAD A FILE?!
2022-11-08	Tyler Smith	Terrible customer experience and UI. Hate how forced to use the extension or cannot download
2022-08-17	Neil Connor	Screwed my PC. Worst cloud product ever. IBM deserve to fade into irrelevance with this effort.
2022-08-01	The Red Herald	I don't want to use this, yet being forced to do so.
2022-06-02	Janine M. B. D.	Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I have opened my inbound and outbound TCP & UDP ports, and have checked using cmd to make sure that they are open, but it keeps saying "Your TCP ports are likely blocked."
2022-04-29	Drew Vance	Does this actually work? Basically only have it to work with FEMA MIP service and it only works in Internet Explorer...
2022-03-29	胖熊有大海啊	I dont know why the software cannot be installed successfully, EVERY time!!! That make me cannot use the whole function whether the plugin or the software! Shitttt!
2022-03-22	Dan Garubba	On Linux, fails to launch and interact with the local client. The console logs: "Could not initialize Connect. Error: Connect 3.9+ was detected but is not responding to extension requests. Check native message host registration."
2022-03-22	Fox Henson	Terrible functionality, no fixes or stability improvements
2022-03-21	Molly Regan	Total garbage! Does not work with Safari. Have tried installing multiple times with no success.
2021-12-05	Chris H	Annoying having to download software to receive transfers
2021-11-15	Scores Angela	Profiles cannot be downloaded via this project. The imagine of "Starting the IBM Aspera Connect" displayed on the top of the Chrome, then nothing happened.
2021-11-05	Craig Myles	I honestly do not understand any of the negative reviews. I am running Chrome on Ubuntu and have had no issues downloading datasets from The Cancer Imaging Archive. I don't normally leave reviews but I was surprised to see so many 1 star reviews. Works fine.
2021-10-29	Ryan Provost	Aspera wants to run all the time. It's not a background application either. Force quit? No dice, it just respawns ... and respawns ... and respawns. We're past the days where something has to be running 100% of the time when you use it 0.001% of the time. Let me quit the app when it's not needed! Also, restating what others have said already, I download multi-gigabyte files in the browser now -- I don't need an archaic app for this. The only reason I have to use this ridiculous app is to appease some CIO's delusional belief that this app is more secure for file sharing than the 1MM other options available today. I use this so infrequently, I'll delete the app to get it to quit and reinstall as needed -- can't believe it's the end of 2021 and I need to say that.