Has rapidshare gone bonkers?

Yeah but you'd do not want to meet my friends

 

and what the hell does that mean?

 

Anyone experiencing traffic counter related issues - lower the number of connections (threads or whatever, depending on download mamager you use ) per file in your settings. This setting alone causes the observed discrepency.

Unfortunately its no discrepancy at all, multi-threaded downloads work just this way. You will get higher download speeds by downloading multiple versions of the same file simultaneously and rapidshare has to cope with increased traffic.

Quid pro quo gentlemen.

 

No shit you don't pay. You made that clear in your first post.

 

My connection speeds are super fast

unfortunately my pc is utter shit so i can barely do anything with it.

 

Thanks for explaining it clearly. I had thought being paid $10 in one payment in 10 days time instead of getting $2 a day over 5 days will still amount to $10. Apparently that is not how RS counts. I simultaneously download 3 files at a time. Would I have avoided the problem by only downloading one file at a time? I do not whether the download manager still opens 5 connection to RS for each file.

BTW, for Piroshok, I paid for the RS premium account in this hard economic time by not giving to Third World Charity this year.

 

Get a FREE "Collector Account" - share some files and earn a FREE premium account. I've NEVER paid for a premium RS account using this method...

RS Manager - download from the tools link at Rapidshare

gHe

 

Hey. I was wondering if someone here could clarify something for me... I've been downloading rapidshare stuff (as a free user) from this forum and others for a good few months now. And apart from waiting for the 70 or so second countdown, I've just been able to download file after file after file with no break whatsoever. (And no apparent daily download limit either - which, from scanning the posts on this thread there seems to be for even Premium users...??? Some days I think I must have downloaded 4Gb non-stop). Then suddenly last week, Rapidshare started telling me I had to wait 15 minutes between downloading files. ...

So I'd like to know is this just a change to RS? Have you guys previously been able to avoid the 15minute wait or is this something you have always had? I remember reading some post a few months ago where someone was talking about the 15min wait and I had no idea what he was talking about - so it seems it's not a new change? I'm wondering if my IP had somehow managed to slip their nets or something???

I appreciate, like you've been saying above, that it's free etc. I'm not complaining - just curious to know what the situation is. Suddenly having to wait 15 mins each file is a tad annoying when you've just been able to keep going without interruption for months. ...Although I think I should probably slow down anyway - Starting to go blind.

 

Hey Buffalo I have been able to do the same over the summer, and now I'm back to waiting between dl's like you.

Don't know why.

 

I had a problem similar to this...I don't know if the cause is the same. For awhile, I was using a download manager plugin for Firefox (I think it was DownThemAll). I would notice the same thing you did...I was going through my allocated bandwith much faster than I should have based on the size of the files I was downloading.

One day, I was actually watching some of the downloads when I figured out what was happening. For no apparent reason, the download manager would just get to like 80% complete on some files...and then just reset and start the download all over again from scratch. Sometimes it would do this multiple times on the same file. So it would end up re-downloading the same file 2, 3, 4 times, in effect, this using 2 or 3 times the bandwidth that it should have for that file. Needless to say I stopped using it.

Now I use Opera. The built in download manager in Opera works great, and the 'Tools>Links' feature makes selecting and downloading multiple links in one shot a breeze.

 

RS changes the "rules" occasionally. Keep up with the latest RS News at this link...

Code:

http://rapidshare.com/news.html

gHe

 

Buffalo, premium users wait for nothing.

As far as download managers go, I use IDM and it's fantastic. I've never experienced and traffic usage discrepancies either.

It's easier than one might think to keep a premo account alive especially since you can earn 255 pts per day from premo users now [well for a while now]. That means in the average month you only have to accumulate about 2350 non premo downloads.

 

Ah, Cheers for getting back to me people. Good to know what's going on. And thanks very much to GearheadElvis for the news link. Here is the explanation from their RS news:

"Jul 02 ...to protect RapidShare from congestion caused by automated downloading, we limited the maximum download speed for free‐users to 500 kilobit per second. To compensate for that, they do not have to wait anymore until starting a succeeding download."

Although there's nothing specific about them stopping that practice. But yeah, shame that they have. Oh well. I was thinking of going for a Premium account. Maybe now's the time. Thanks again guys. Appreciate it.