rapidshare down?

Red Porsche · 27 Feb 2010 at 19:08

Clawz114 said:
I love Rapidshare. Piracy is for the win.

deus3x · 27 Feb 2010 at 19:09

Guest2 said:
Im sure Sky blocks rapidshare sometimes. I rang them about it and they said they block no sites though.

They must be here, I cant use it at all on SKy. Cant wait for my Be internet to take over.

Sky = RUBBISH.........

Clawz114 · 27 Feb 2010 at 19:15

deus3x said:
They must be here, I cant use it at all on SKy. Cant wait for my Be internet to take over.

Sky = RUBBISH.........

Just for the record, ive got BE and ive had no problems with Rapidshare, and i use it almost everyday.

Hopefully it will be an improvement for you over Sky.

Radiation · 27 Feb 2010 at 19:43

Seems odd this just happens sometimes with sky while for other isp's its fine and you can even use https or ssl and it will magically work again (sometimes), megaupload has been acting slow at the moment and thats if it works at all, try it and see what happens if you're on sky, interesting...

reflux · 27 Feb 2010 at 19:50

Yeah another Sky user here, definitely still down.

EDIT: seems to work if you use https

deus3x · 27 Feb 2010 at 19:53

Clawz114 said:
Just for the record, ive got BE and ive had no problems with Rapidshare, and i use it almost everyday.

Hopefully it will be an improvement for you over Sky.

Good to know, thanks.

Deleted member 77746 · 27 Feb 2010 at 19:55

Rapidshare must be making a ton of money right now.

Radiation · 27 Feb 2010 at 20:01

rapidshare is pathetic if you only want to get the odd small thing someone uploads, it's too slow to be anything but a painfully annoying experience now, i remember it being somewhat ok a year or so ago, what happened? it's a shame its still so popular.

reflux · 27 Feb 2010 at 20:03

Radiation said:
rapidshare is pathetic if you only want to get the odd small thing someone uploads, it's too slow to be anything but a painfully annoying experience now, i remember it being somewhat ok a year or so ago, what happened? it's a shame its still so popular.

Always maxes out my connection. Downloading at 1.6 mb/s second right now.

asim18 · 27 Feb 2010 at 20:10

Radiation said:
rapidshare is pathetic if you only want to get the odd small thing someone uploads, it's too slow to be anything but a painfully annoying experience now, i remember it being somewhat ok a year or so ago, what happened? it's a shame its still so popular.

Only you mate. I've never had a problem with RapidShare. Their support lines are also excellent. Always maxes out my connection at 2.1MB/s.

Radiation · 27 Feb 2010 at 20:13

reflux said:
Always maxes out my connection. Downloading at 1.6 mb/s second right now.

I guess you pay for it and use it a lot?

I only ever use it for the odd file but then i don't download much anyway, when i do have to use it, its annoying, most other sites seem to handle a lot of files like download.com and gaming sites for demos and stuff so whats up with these kind of file hosts?

asim18 · 27 Feb 2010 at 20:21

Radiation said:
so whats up with these kind of file hosts?

Their main source of income is paying customers. They don't give a **** about free users. They don't want to spend money trying to keep a good service for non paying users.

Guest2 · 27 Feb 2010 at 22:41

https://ssl.rapidshare.com/ works fine.

Downloads dont work however as they come from

http://rapidshare.com/files/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Is it something to do with Sky DNS problems?

edit - Looks like i was right. Using these DNS servers work. Downloads now working (and the net is faster than before, as are my downloads)

Primary DNS 208.67.222.222
Secondry DNS 208.67.220.220

edit 2 - nope, doesnt work with those dns server now. Just sticks on 'waiting for www.rapidshare.com...'

edit 3 - working again, not sure for how long though...

rancid-a · 27 Feb 2010 at 22:56

My Rapidshare has been fine during the last few hours too. (with BT)

0neAnd0nly · 27 Feb 2010 at 23:38

Theres defiantly a problem guys ! I've been down all day, http 500 error, got it working a little using ssl. but the downloads came up as a internet document. Its gotta be sky broadband

Any Ideas now ? Or will I have to start taking heroin to replace my addiction :/

Teki187 · 28 Feb 2010 at 00:03

Not for me

analog · 28 Feb 2010 at 00:34

Try adding these two lines into your hosts file C:/Windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts (open it with notepad)
195.122.131.46 rapidshare.com
195.122.131.46 www.rapidshare.com

That has sorted out past problems for me.

0neAnd0nly · 28 Feb 2010 at 01:15

analog said:
Try adding these two lines into your hosts file C:/Windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts (open it with notepad)
195.122.131.46 rapidshare.com
195.122.131.46 www.rapidshare.com

That has sorted out past problems for me.

Cool, seems to be faster loading, haven't tried downloading yet. How does that host work ?

It works on downloading but soooo much slower, any ideas ?

also I can't get it working on firefox downthemall addon

analog · 28 Feb 2010 at 01:21

I think it maps hostnames to IP addresses but i could be wrong and the IP is that of rapidshare or at least one of their servers.

RadoX · 28 Feb 2010 at 02:41

i cant understand why hosts such as rapidshare are still alive. All they do is host warez and cp. why hasnt someone shut them down yet ?