Another rapidshare rant

Kol · 12 Mar 2009 at 19:45

Don't see why people use it as a d/l service either. From what I see it's split into small parts and all of them are separate links. At least with usenet you have indexing sites and simple NZB files.

mattyj1085 · 12 Mar 2009 at 19:49

Kol said:
Don't see why people use it as a d/l service either. From what I see it's split into small parts and all of them are separate links. At least with usenet you have indexing sites and simple NZB files.

Just select all the files, right click and download. then right click one and extract. Either that or 'download all links' (and check the ones you want)

Kol · 12 Mar 2009 at 19:51

mattyj1085 said:
Just select all the files, right click and download. then right click one and extract. Either that or 'download all links' (and check the ones you want)

Fair enough. I may check it out one day, but I guess I'm just set in my ways. One click, check back, done.

reflux · 12 Mar 2009 at 20:01

mattyfez said:
I have never understood the point of rapidshare, and I dont feel im missing anything?

What is the point of it, what makes people pay for it?

As was discussed in the thread last week, it's like having your own private torrent tracker without any of the hassles of torrents.

Kol said:
Don't see why people use it as a d/l service either. From what I see it's split into small parts and all of them are separate links. At least with usenet you have indexing sites and simple NZB files.

Yeah, split archives. If all the archives are in the same folder, WinRAR reads them as one file. No problems

mattyj1085 · 12 Mar 2009 at 20:09

Kol said:
Fair enough. I may check it out one day, but I guess I'm just set in my ways. One click, check back, done.

This does just that, or right click download everything. Or download a whole website for offline browsing

http://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/

Pilky01 · 12 Mar 2009 at 20:53

This 2.66gb thing is rubbish. I have run out of points to convert as well

manjuice · 12 Mar 2009 at 20:58

Megashares for the win.
£15 for 6 months.
Accound shared with 3 friends = £5 each for 6 months.

1 link downloads. We can easily download over 50GB each, everyday.

Rapidshare may have more content but Megashares always have the latests stuff.

2 hours max if downloaded from MS.
3 days if downloaded from RS.

FrostedNipple · 12 Mar 2009 at 21:04

once you have hit 2.66 you can log out of premium and download as a free user.

mattyj1085 · 12 Mar 2009 at 21:05

damn those download speeds are fast. orange would have a baby if i downloaded 150gb a day! last year when rapidshare was normal my dad got a letter about downloading too much. (no not 10gb of porn a day)

Pilky01 · 12 Mar 2009 at 21:10

FrostedNipple said:
once you have hit 2.66 you can log out of premium and download as a free user.

Yep but you can only download one file at a time, have a tiny download limit and get drowned in capatcha codes.

Viper² · 12 Mar 2009 at 21:12

Hardly fast speeds. This is from Rapidshare. I always get really good speeds. Most other download sites I don't even get a 10th of these speeds, even with premium accounts.

mattyj1085 · 12 Mar 2009 at 21:15

5mb a second??? Im happy with 250kb. surely even with an annual rapidshare account you hit a limit if your downloading for a few hours on that speed? (If theres no limit on rapidshare your hard drive will run out anyway!) yep, if im right then 5 hours downloading = 90gb

FrostedNipple · 12 Mar 2009 at 21:16

haha mac noob

V4NT0M · 12 Mar 2009 at 21:40

Viper² said:
Hardly fast speeds. This is from Rapidshare. I always get really good speeds. Most other download sites I don't even get a 10th of these speeds, even with premium accounts.

50mbps cable?

manjuice · 12 Mar 2009 at 22:10

Viper² said:
Hardly fast speeds. This is from Rapidshare. I always get really good speeds. Most other download sites I don't even get a 10th of these speeds, even with premium accounts.

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Well if you have a faster connection than me, obviously you're going to have a faster download speed. :rolleyes:

[IMG]http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/294/277u.png

Uni's wifi on my laptop.

mattyj1085 · 12 Mar 2009 at 22:13

tchan_4 said:
Well if you have a faster connection than me, obviously you're going to have a faster download speed.

Uni's wifi on my laptop.

holy crap, has your uni got its own satellite in space?

apeZ · 12 Mar 2009 at 22:23

mattyj1085 said:
holy crap, has your uni got its own satellite in space?

Think that sort of speed is pretty standard for most uni's

int · 12 Mar 2009 at 22:31

I came in on RS right as they went from unlimited -> 10Gb and that was a big enough shock to start with. 2.66Gb daily is measly especially when you're like me and download the wrong versions of things

e: Eugh, they've also upped the number of points you need to extend your account from 8000 to 10000 :/

FrostedNipple · 12 Mar 2009 at 22:34

apeZ said:
Think that sort of speed is pretty standard for most uni's

yup, if you live near a uni, register for a cheap it course, you will get a logon then anytime you want to download stuff just take it from their connection. Just keep failing the module and signing up again. I don't know how cheap the cheap courses are though

probably not worthwhile.

Jotun · 12 Mar 2009 at 22:39

This thread makes me feel cheap. I've got a download manager which I just copy links in to. I just queue up a few things and leave it going over night. There's a 15 minute wait between each file but it slowly makes its way through them. Not quite as fast, but it's free and frees up my upload bandwidth for torrents so I'm not complaining.