IBM Aspera Connect
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Description from extension meta
Enables high-speed Aspera transfers.
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This extension enables the use of IBM Aspera Connect with Chrome. This extension requires the IBM Aspera Connect application, version 3.9.0 or newer.
The purpose of this extension and the corresponding desktop application is to move large files FAST from your computer to an IBM Aspera server.
You need to have an account on an Aspera server to move files.
FASP is the protocol used to move files much faster than is possible over TCP/IP. The application has to be where the network is.
Privacy statement: This extension is activated only by websites that integrate IBM Aspera to transfer files. This extension does not read or store any personal information.
Latest reviews
- Gene Woolington
- Aspera is the most inconvenient unusable file transfer server. Save your money because it makes it impossible for your customers to send you anything because it always fails to authenticate and never give a reason why, even when the transfer test passes every time. This thing is absolute junk.
- Matt Rigby
- The protocol itself is incredible. This plugin is finecky as hell and outdated/works about 80% of the time if you look to the western sky and raise your left arm to the exact right angle while humming America the Beautiful.
- Philip Van de Walker
- Nonfunctional garbage
- Janneke Dales
- I have a Chromebook. Apparently, Aspera for desktop can only be installed on a Windows device (or Mac OS, or Linux). That is my own conclusion, after spending hours online looking for a solution or workaround. Even my company's helpdesk did not know this. And yes, I did install the extension first.
- Toby Yao
- For NCBI upload, whatever the NCBI website says, you need to download & install this plug-in PLUS "Aspera Connect" (you can download .msi file from IBM site" to have everything working. NCBI's instruction wasn't very clear about this. Hope this helps.
- Abel Barré
- Doesn't work to upload fastq data to SRA on NCBI.
- Ronnie Yao
- too week
- Amir Sadikov
- This is terrible. Doesn't work at all.
- Stefan Gajewski
- This is bad
- Fabrizio Pietrucci
- it sucks :D
- pydevfinish
- worst
- Michael Swarbrick
- This browser extension works fine, but the desktop application that's also required is becoming bloated. Firewall issues also seem to confuse a lot of people, but there are help pages for those who can be bothered to look.
- Zach Eragon
- Why do I need to install browser spyware to install desktop spyware? This makes zero sense. Absolute bloat software with way too many permissions. If I didn't have to install this for work, I would never touch it.
- LT Dan
- This is a junk ap and do not depend on it for anything, even the help link doesnt work
- Blake Girardot
- Wow, what junk software (plugin and required desktop app), multiple folks at our company and none of us have succeeded in installing it and it working successfully.
- Maximilian Jesch
- worked great. You need the desktop app as well
- Michael Klaumann
- Absolute joke. Every time we have to use Aspera it's a problem, EVERY time.
- Christopher Heckey
- DON'T FORGET TO INSTALL THE DESKTOP APP
- Jeremy Cloyd
- It sometimes allows me to monitor transfers without having to have the browser active, if you have the desktop app, but it doesn't behave predictably enough to rely on
- drakes89
- For everyone that says the extension doesn't work: You also need the DESKTOP APPLICATION!
- David Woolley
- Spent the last 2 days trying to receive files from a partner who insists on using Aspera. It just doesn't work.
- Marcus Goh
- Doesn't work. I'm surprised IBM releases extensions that don't work.
- James Mielke
- On either Chrome or Safari, the extension doesn't want to appear or function or anything. I hate Aspera.
- Алексей
- Vip
- Harshit Sharma
- Worked perfectly for my usecase.
- Hear Kitty Studios
- As long as everyone is up-to-date and in agreement on how their servers work, this product works fine for me. It's not great, but it's better than many other options we've used.
- Joanne Surman
- For something thats supposed to save you time uploading multiple files, its surely not fitting the bill. By the time I have uploaded the extension and messed around with working out why its not working (which I haven't done so yet) I could have uploaded all my files and made myself a coffee. So will do that in future and forget all about this!
- Krzysztof Żebrowski
- Doesnt work. The moment the transfer is enabled, my internet communication turns off - most likely triggered by some ports being disabled? Super weird. Of course no information how to solve this problem... (MacOS user btw)
- Russell Contreras
- See no purpose for this. Terrible program and is such a pain
- Jamie Lang
- Just awful and unintuitive. If anything, it has increased the time it takes to acquire digital assets.
- Hexy Arts
- Unintuitive and forced solution for doing things that can safely be done from frontend.
- Filipe Nogueira
- terrible program
- Bob Scott
- clunky messy and obscure
- Ash Salunke
- IBM Aspera Connect Extension does not work with Chrome & Incognito window. I tried with Microsoft Edge browser and it worked. Please try Microsoft Edge browser.
- Daniel Cifuentes Guarnizo
- This is just not acceptable, making this extension required to download a file!
- sasi kumar
- It doesn't open at all. And in the extensions only this logo doesn't have the hyperlink effect. So disappointed.
- Tien Tran Minh
- I was forced to be download this package for downloading a file
- Jordan Harris
- I wish I could give negative stars this thing. It never works and now I cant even download anything because i have to use this stupid extension.
- Thiago Akira
- google should let us give 0 star review, cause this extension deserves it.
- Thiago Akira
- google should let us give 0 star review, cause this extension deserves it.
- Gabriel Vieira de Andrade
- Excelente!
- Gehrig Gosselin
- Holy cow how is this even a thing. This should be removed as the spam that it is.
- Gehrig Gosselin
- Holy cow how is this even a thing. This should be removed as the spam that it is.
- Ben Walker
- Garbage that shouldn't exist
- Ben Walker
- Garbage that shouldn't exist
- Felix Plata
- Works sometimes, then bugs out. between inability to "connect" to errors establishing HTTP connection and firewall. I would have changed nothing and still these issues arise with no technical support or clear way to fix it. waste of time and stress
- Felix Plata
- Works sometimes, then bugs out. between inability to "connect" to errors establishing HTTP connection and firewall. I would have changed nothing and still these issues arise with no technical support or clear way to fix it. waste of time and stress
- Tom Ryley
- my work computer blocked it. rightly so
- Tom Ryley
- my work computer blocked it. rightly so
- Marcin M.
- Forcing people into some weird extensions for file upload. This could have been a popup window...