rapidshare - file sharing

fistikuffs

Biggins wrote: »

Same here. With Rapidshare day or night, I can download a gig in 20/25 minutes max. Try doing that with torrents. Good luck.

Torrents, even highly seeded ones cannot compare to rapidshare with firefox/flashgot and orbit as your d/l manager. 500 kbs/s consistently on my connection

vibe666

fistikuffs wrote: »

Eh not true, just a couple of weeks ago i downloaded 17gb between 12am and 7am from rapidshare no hassle. And i didn't have to seed it either

how did you manage that? someone earlier in the thread was talking about a 2.5gb per day limit up to a max of 10gb rolled over in a 4 day period. how much would you have to pay for speeds like that?

look, I know i'm fighting a losing battle here, (i might as well be in the christianity forum telling them there's no god! ) and i'm probably in a minority with a 20mbps/1.5mbps cable connection, but all i'm saying is, I've tried rapidshare a few times in the past (yes, even the premium one once, and as recently as a couple of months ago) and I'm even a member of a decent site with RS links but i can't justify paying more for premium access, esp. when it would make no difference to what i'm able to download.

i can download as many linux distro's as i like much faster than i can actually do anything with them and my torrent seeding ratio is over 1.5 without even trying so what could RS even offer me that's worth paying for?

can rapget hook into an rss feed and download all the latest linux disto's within minutes of them being released? does it have a plugin with a web gui that allows you to manage your downloads remotely when you're not at home?

Blazer

Have my rapidshare account for the last year so was still on the original 5gb plan.
Didn't download everyday so I've a daily limit of over 10GB every day until next April.
Hate torrents..not sure if Eircom are throttling them or something but on rs I get my full 7.6megs.
It also looks like Rapidshare doesn't go out faster than 10meg as my boss is on a 20meg package and the max he gets with a premium account is also 10megs.

fistikuffs

vibe666 wrote: »

how did you manage that? someone earlier in the thread was talking about a 2.5gb per day limit up to a max of 10gb rolled over in a 4 day period. how much would you have to pay for speeds like that?

Ok well i won't deny that you can't achieve those type of speeds with out fronting up some cash, in this case extra cash. I think it's €10 for 100gb/month but i can't really remember as i was a a bit pissed at the time. But i'm paying for a service and it provides. I'm on a 7.6mbs connection and cannot get torrent speeds close to what i get on RS, and yes my port forwarding is correctly set-up, i do get great speeds on well seeded torrents on one or two of the good private trackers i use.

vibe666 wrote: »

i can download as many linux distro's as i like much faster than i can actually do anything with them and my torrent seeding ratio is over 1.5 without even trying so what could RS even offer me that's worth paying for?

Infairness if all you are downloading is linux distros then torrents is certainly your best bet. I don't think paying rapidshare to download linux distros encapsulates the whole linux philosophy;). Distrubuting linux distros is one area where torrents makes great sense.

vibe666

fistikuffs wrote: »

Infairness if all you are downloading is linux distros then torrents is certainly your best bet. I don't think paying rapidshare to download linux distros encapsulates the whole linux philosophy;). Distrubuting linux distros is one area where torrents makes great sense.

lol, i was trying to keep things legitimate sounding and within the rules of the forum. i assumed everyone would know the true nature of my peg legged, eye patched, parrot having, buccaneering philosophy.

although I do give most linux distro's a go to be fair, so it's not a total lie.

Kinetic^

Those who are on rapidshare, is there an application that manages the download? ie downloads, unpack, deletes rar file.

I was originally on limewire (:P), then torrents up until about 18 months ago, tried rapidshare for a month and swiftly moved onto newsgroups (giganews server with newzbin for nzb's).


The program I use for newsgroups, sabnzd, does all that I mentioned above and will also arrange the finished items to go to designated folders. So if you download say, a linux distro which would be under the "apps" genre on the site, you can preset Sabnzbd to put that into a specific folder. It's great when you're trying to seperate stuff like TV/Movies/Documents. It all sounds rather lazy but it would be a serious pain in the hoop to go back to something like rapidshare/torrents if I had to do all that crap myself.

Fighting Irish

zAbbo wrote: »

Newsgroups > *

Thats what i use to think, until i got premium RS

Fighting Irish

RS manager - Download+Upload
Flashget - Download
Internet Download Manager - Download

I use flashget

Kinetic^ wrote: »

Those who are on rapidshare, is there an application that manages the download? ie downloads, unpack, deletes rar file.

I was originally on limewire (:P), then torrents up until about 18 months ago, tried rapidshare for a month and swiftly moved onto newsgroups (giganews server with newzbin for nzb's).


The program I use for newsgroups, sabnzd, does all that I mentioned above and will also arrange the finished items to go to designated folders. So if you download say, a linux distro which would be under the "apps" genre on the site, you can preset Sabnzbd to put that into a specific folder. It's great when you're trying to seperate stuff like TV/Movies/Documents. It all sounds rather lazy but it would be a serious pain in the hoop to go back to something like rapidshare/torrents if I had to do all that crap myself.

jester77

I prefer the torrents. I have them set up with RSS feeds and never have to go looking for files. They are always there in the morning when I wake up. Tis the biz!

vibe666

jester77 wrote: »

I prefer the torrents. I have them set up with RSS feeds and never have to go looking for files. They are always there in the morning when I wake up. Tis the biz!

ditto, same here imho, but everyone seems to love their RS, so there's no telling anyone differently.

add to that a web based gui to manage my downloads remotely (start, stop, add, remove torrents) from work (or even my mobile phone) and there's just nothing can compare to it.

Fighting Irish

vibe666 wrote: »

ditto, same here imho, but everyone seems to love their RS, so there's no telling anyone differently.

add to that a web based gui to manage my downloads remotely (start, stop, add, remove torrents) from work (or even my mobile phone) and there's just nothing can compare to it.

Don't think we all haven't tried torrents/newsgroups etc etc

The content available on RS with a premium account is way too big for anything to compete with it, and its so easy to find content

vibe666

Fighting Irish wrote: »

Don't think we all haven't tried torrents/newsgroups etc etc

The content available on RS with a premium account is way too big for anything to compete with it, and its so easy to find content

i imagine so, but myself an jester feel the same way about torrents. when you get used to it and know where to go and how to find what you want easily with little or no possibility of getting virus's or fake files etc. it's great but from the looks of it exactly the same statement could be made about RS too, i think it just comes down to what people are used to and what works for them.

it's the same with linux and windows, people just go with what works for them, a die hard linux fan will have no trouble at all getting wha they want out of their OS of choice, but it can be a quagmire for a windows user to find their way in linux.

btw, love your sig.

Sherifu

vibe666 wrote: »

it's the same with linux and windows, people just go with what works for them, a die hard linux fan will have no trouble at all getting wha they want out of their OS of choice, but it can be a quagmire for a windows user to find their way in linux.

Nail on the head, use whatever you prefer.

Fighting Irish

vibe666 wrote: »

i imagine so, but myself an jester feel the same way about torrents. when you get used to it and know where to go and how to find what you want easily with little or no possibility of getting virus's or fake files etc. it's great but from the looks of it exactly the same statement could be made about RS too, i think it just comes down to what people are used to and what works for them.

it's the same with linux and windows, people just go with what works for them, a die hard linux fan will have no trouble at all getting wha they want out of their OS of choice, but it can be a quagmire for a windows user to find their way in linux.

btw, love your sig.

Have you ever had an RS premium account?

Biggins

Fighting Irish wrote: »

Have you ever had an RS premium account?

Yep, add to that Internet download manager and your laughing day or night.

AlmightyCushion

Biggins wrote: »

Yep, add to that Internet download manager and your laughing day or night.

Free download manager is just as good and as the name implies is free.

fatal

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Free download manager is just as good and as the name implies is free.

So is IDM,if you patch it up a bit that is;)

yoyo

fatal wrote: »

So is IDM,if you patch it up a bit that is;)

And risk the crack having a login stealer , Ill stick to flashget :pac:, also think flashget it much better than it anyway (Have tried it out)

Nick

fatal

yoyo wrote: »

And risk the crack having a login stealer , Ill stick to flashget :pac:, also think flashget it much better than it anyway (Have tried it out)

Nick

If thats the case,stick to a key generator;)

yoyo

fatal wrote: »

If thats the case,stick to a key generator;)

Cant argue that :pac: :pac:

Nick

Fighting Irish

yoyo wrote: »

And risk the crack having a login stealer , Ill stick to flashget :pac:, also think flashget it much better than it anyway (Have tried it out)

Nick

i use both, i prefer flashget but i like how IDM shows you the size of the file before you download

T-b0n3

I use torrents a lot. Never used rapidshare before but would be very interested to get it. Is it as easy as signing up and using it or is there anything I should know before getting the credit card out?! Much appreciated! Thanks!!

Adam

AlmightyCushion

Can we lose the whole keygen/crack discussion please.

Biggins

At the end of the day - for those that have the finance ability, personally I'd recommend going with Rapidshare and a good download manager which can work for you day or night automatically or manually at certain times also as you wish it.

For those that are not so lucky to avail of the paid premium services of Rapidshare, etc torrents can't be knocked for what they do for free.

Its a preference for every user and given their own current state of system and ability/wanting to pay further, each has to go with the best they can manage.

Its that simple.

the_syco

I went from HTTP to FTP to torrents, and now to Rapidshare.

HTTP was ok, but the sites were usually based in Russia, so speeds varied.

The FTP scene was alive when I joined it, and probably still alive, but with more needing payment. Ratio FTP's were ok, but the upload list was usually filled with stuff that no-one had, so meh.

The torrent scene was good, and I could get max speeds with certain groups. However, the groups would have the latest stuff, but then within a few months, it'd become stale. My ratio was always between 1.5 and 2. The public torrents site would always be filled with fake 4GB ISO's and viruses. The few decent private ones still operating now, I'd get low speeds with them. Also, unless you knew someone in there, getting an invite was hard. Checking everyday for a "opening" of applications to the forums sucked.

With Rapidshare, I'd get max speeds. I used a free membership for a while, but found that paying had it's advantages.

I'd say torrents are still very good, providing you are part of the "good" sites. You will then get max speeds, but as I couldn't get into them, meh: there was no way I could get full speeds. Someone mentioned applications to add, delete, monitor torrents: never really looked into it. I can queue 30GB's of traffic with Flashet, limit the bandwidth so that others in the house can access the internet, and then leave it be.

vibe666

Fighting Irish wrote: »

Have you ever had an RS premium account?

yes, signed up for a 4 day account to try it when I was in a position where torrenting wasn't a practical option, but haven't needed it since so never renewed it and the way i have everything set up in my torrent client now with the web gui and rss feeds there really isn't anything that I want that I can't get and most of it happens automatically within minutes of it becoming available online, even when I'm sleeping so why pay extra for RS?

to be fiar, there has been one time when something I wanted wasn't available anywhere except RS and I did use it then (just the free one) but aside from that one time it's been well over a year since I've touched it and I don't see much of a need for it any time soon so I think I'll just stick with what I know works well for me for now until something better does come along, but I'm not going to get my credit card out for something that can't offer me anything that I want that I'm not already getting for free.

i might consider it if I ever go back to using a windows machine, but RS doesn't play overly nice with linux and BT does, so I'll stick with it for now.

just out of curiosity, what are people paying for RS these days and what do you get for your money?

nobodythere

They dropped the limits from 10GB a day to 2.66GB... What a load of bollox.

sink

It costs me €55 a year and I have never hit my limit. Here is my traffic pattern for the last month.

Date Traffic
Thu, 1. Jan 2009 606730 KB
Wed, 31. Dec 2008 6729932 KB
Tue, 30. Dec 2008 3816478 KB
Mon, 29. Dec 2008 2994166 KB
Sun, 28. Dec 2008 3382896 KB
Sat, 27. Dec 2008 2806080 KB
Fri, 26. Dec 2008 4154110 KB
Thu, 25. Dec 2008 3855678 KB
Wed, 24. Dec 2008 3844421 KB
Tue, 23. Dec 2008 2535190 KB
Mon, 22. Dec 2008 552325 KB
Sun, 21. Dec 2008 2788816 KB
Sat, 20. Dec 2008 806388 KB
Fri, 19. Dec 2008 4322449 KB
Thu, 18. Dec 2008 1870148 KB
Wed, 17. Dec 2008 2663239 KB
Tue, 16. Dec 2008 4418292 KB
Mon, 15. Dec 2008 3154568 KB
Sun, 14. Dec 2008 8385650 KB
Sat, 13. Dec 2008 3469427 KB
Fri, 12. Dec 2008 187805 KB
Thu, 11. Dec 2008 448579 KB
Wed, 10. Dec 2008 2293509 KB
Tue, 9. Dec 2008 4109462 KB
Mon, 8. Dec 2008 3444453 KB
Sun, 7. Dec 2008 97942 KB
Sat, 6. Dec 2008 1741892 KB
Fri, 5. Dec 2008 746745 KB
Thu, 4. Dec 2008 938257 KB
Wed, 3. Dec 2008 12753530 KB
Tue, 2. Dec 2008 2693013 KB

Right now I have 53gb of download capacity left for today. No way I'm going to use even 1/10th of that.

the_syco

Still 10GB a day for me. Starting late evening means that I won't go over the limit, as it goes into a new day.

TPD

fistikuffs wrote: »

Eh not true, just a couple of weeks ago i downloaded 17gb between 12am and 7am from rapidshare no hassle. And i didn't have to seed it either

I downloaded about 20gb in a 2 hour class a month or so ago.

EKRIUQ

Biggins wrote: »

Yep, add to that Internet download manager and your laughing day or night.

I downloaded that, wasn't impressed, uninstalled it and it fcuked up my computer and won't boot now, thanks alot :rolleyes:

Biggins

EKRIUQ wrote: »

I downloaded that, wasn't impressed, uninstalled it and it fcuked up my computer and won't boot now, thanks alot :rolleyes:

That would be a first then because it's one of thee best!

Gave a look at your config.sys in safe mode. cancel any references to it at start-up in the "services section".

To clean the app out - Install it again, reboot into safe mode and un-install it from there.

TouchingVirus

vibe666 wrote: »

does it have a plugin with a web gui that allows you to manage your downloads remotely when you're not at home?

It's HTTP downloading, no need for a plugin, Just bring your 8gb+ memory stick with you, throw in your password and download. None of that 'wait till I get home' shoite..I want my stuff now damnit!

The only downside I see to rapidshare is that not only do you pay for your premium access, but you're downloading files from people with TopSite access or those higher up in the scene. These people will gather RS points from everybody who downloads their files (including premium users) and many of them convert these points into free accounts and sell them - i.e. they're making money from 'the scene' ..a major grey area in my book.

yoyo

EKRIUQ wrote: »

I downloaded that, wasn't impressed, uninstalled it and it fcuked up my computer and won't boot now, thanks alot :rolleyes:

Try the "Use last good known configuration" startup option

Nick

vibe666

TouchingVirus wrote: »

It's HTTP downloading, no need for a plugin, Just bring your 8gb+ memory stick with you, throw in your password and download. None of that 'wait till I get home' shoite..I want my stuff now damnit!

all well and good unless you work somewhere where even a measly 100mb download will get noticed.

all my regular stuff gets hooked into my torrent client automatically via various rss feeds but I can manually add stuff to my queue remotely if i spot anything during the day that I like the look of and that way it's always done by the time i get home.

Diddy Kong

vibe666 wrote: »

all well and good unless you work somewhere where even a measly 100mb download will get noticed.

all my regular stuff gets hooked into my torrent client automatically via various rss feeds but I can manually add stuff to my queue remotely if i spot anything during the day that I like the look of and that way it's always done by the time i get home.

What website does this for you?

Myxomatosis

Rapidshare is the only filehost worthwhile paying for.

All the other filehosts seem to be a bit more expensive with only a fraction of the content.

When people upload stuff, they upload it to rapidshare.

Torrents are ****.

Anti

Alot of torrent bashing here, ive been using torrents for god knows how long, not once have i had a virus or a fake torrent. All you need to do is get an invite to somewhere decent like...Well im not going to say Public trackers are pretty useless as they are used to hit and run.

Everything i want on a weekly basis is downloaded automaticially at full speeds. Then i just let everything seed to 2:1/3:1 ratio

Ive tried rapidshares and didnt really like it, probably because i couldn't find a decent download manager.

Newsgroups are certainly the way forward, everyone i know thats on them finds theem fantastic, but not for me. My filesharing costs me 0€ a year, and i plan on keeping it that way.

yoyo

Anti wrote: »

Alot of torrent bashing here, ive been using torrents for god knows how long, not once have i had a virus or a fake torrent. All you need to do is get an invite to somewhere decent like...Well im not going to say Public trackers are pretty useless as they are used to hit and run.

Everything i want on a weekly basis is downloaded automaticially at full speeds. Then i just let everything seed to 2:1/3:1 ratio

Ive tried rapidshares and didnt really like it, probably because i couldn't find a decent download manager.

Newsgroups are certainly the way forward, everyone i know thats on them finds theem fantastic, but not for me. My filesharing costs me 0€ a year, and i plan on keeping it that way.

While private sites such as TL are great, unfortunately in this country with our diabolical upload speeds seeding back a couple of gigs is not a easy task, and if you leech to much without sharing or keeping a good ratio, you will be banned, I'm actually a member on a few private sites, but gave up in favour of rapidshare, rapidshare your guaranteed downloads, no "Slots" system where you must wait X hours to download, and dont have to keep a share ratio . Also FlashGet is a fast, free download manager, compatible with rapidshare, as is Internet Download Manager, Free Download manager etc...

Nick

vibe666

Diddy Kong wrote: »

What website does this for you?

a lot of torrent sites have an rss feed on them (look for an orange rss logo) and mostof the major torrent clients (such as utorrent or azureus) have rss scrapers either built in or available as a plugin.

then you just spend s few minutes setting up filters to grab your regular downloads and within a few minutes of anything getting caught in the filter it will automatically be added to your queue and downloaded.

not sure about utorrent, but Azureus also has a few plugins which are able to add a http(s) front end that you can serve from your PC on any random port you like and combined with either a static ip address or dyndns redirection gives you flawless remote control without having to use something bandwidth sapping like logmein or similar sending your full desktop over the net.

i can use this http front end to add/remove/start/stop/pause torrents as and when i want.

i feel like a bible salesman in mecca.

Donald-Duck

Anti wrote: »

Ive tried rapidshares and didnt really like it, probably because i couldn't find a decent download manager.

This is my problem with it, when I can't copy and paste a file split into 20 parts into a program. It becomes tedious, and easier to juts torrent.

The only program that supports doing that with rapidshare links doesn't work on my PC. It just keeps resetting the wait timer

jester77

vibe666 wrote: »

a lot of torrent sites have an rss feed on them (look for an orange rss logo) and mostof the major torrent clients (such as utorrent or azureus) have rss scrapers either built in or available as a plugin.

then you just spend s few minutes setting up filters to grab your regular downloads and within a few minutes of anything getting caught in the filter it will automatically be added to your queue and downloaded.

not sure about utorrent, but Azureus also has a few plugins which are able to add a http(s) front end that you can serve from your PC on any random port you like and combined with either a static ip address or dyndns redirection gives you flawless remote control without having to use something bandwidth sapping like logmein or similar sending your full desktop over the net.

i can use this http front end to add/remove/start/stop/pause torrents as and when i want.

i feel like a bible salesman in mecca.

uTorrent also has the built in GUI via plugin, works great. See something during the day and you can remotely add it to your client and the file will be downloaded and waiting for you when you get home.

I tried Rapidshare for a month and saw no value in it for me, that's not to say others may find value in it. But at the moment I'm very happy with torrents and RSS feeds. I come home in the evening and my files are there waiting for me, I never have to remember when something might be available and never have to go looking for anything.

nobodythere

Donald-Duck wrote: »

This is my problem with it, when I can't copy and paste a file split into 20 parts into a program. It becomes tedious, and easier to juts torrent.

The only program that supports doing that with rapidshare links doesn't work on my PC. It just keeps resetting the wait timer

Free Download Manager, Ctrl+Shift+V

if you have vista there;s official tools on the site

Donald-Duck

grasshopa wrote: »

Free Download Manager, Ctrl+Shift+V

if you have vista there;s official tools on the site

Awesome, didn't think any of those took in usernames and passwords. Thanks

yoyo

Donald-Duck wrote: »

This is my problem with it, when I can't copy and paste a file split into 20 parts into a program. It becomes tedious, and easier to juts torrent.

The only program that supports doing that with rapidshare links doesn't work on my PC. It just keeps resetting the wait timer

Firefox and FlashGot addon is all you need, select all links, right click "FlashGot Selection" and all are added to the download manager of your choice, also you need a premium rapidshare account in order to download multiple files similtaniously

Nick

ironictoaster

I use the firefox add on Linky. It can open multiple links at once.

PogMoThoin

grasshopa wrote: »

Free Download Manager, Ctrl+Shift+V

+1, fantastic program

jelly&icecream

Donald-Duck wrote: »

This is my problem with it, when I can't copy and paste a file split into 20 parts into a program. It becomes tedious, and easier to juts torrent.

The only program that supports doing that with rapidshare links doesn't work on my PC. It just keeps resetting the wait timer

I've found jDownloader very good

Myxomatosis

If the Firefox extention DownThemAll had the ability to accept multiple links it would be perfect.

Instead I just use the below code, save to a file called makelinks.htm, and have it bookmarked.

When I've a pile of rapidshare links copied to the clip board, I just paste them into the textarea, click make links, then right click on the page and let downthemall do the rest.

<style>
#links {width:300px; height:300px}
</style>
<script>
function makelinks()
{
	var links = document.getElementById('links').value;
	var linkArr=links.split("\n");
	document.open();
	for each(var link in linkArr)
	{
		document.write("<a href='" +link+ "'>" +link+ "</a><br>");
	}
	document.close();

}
</script>

<div>
<button id="make" onClick="makelinks()">Make Links</button>
</div>
<div>
<textarea id="links" wrap="off"></textarea>
</div>

yoyo

Myxomatosis wrote: »

If the Firefox extention DownThemAll had the ability to accept multiple links it would be perfect.

Instead I just use the below code, save to a file called makelinks.htm, and have it bookmarked.

When I've a pile of rapidshare links copied to the clip board, I just paste them into the textarea, click make links, then right click on the page and let downthemall do the rest.

<style>
#links {width:300px; height:300px}
</style>
<script>
function makelinks()
{
	var links = document.getElementById('links').value;
	var linkArr=links.split("\n");
	document.open();
	for each(var link in linkArr)
	{
		document.write("<a href='" +link+ "'>" +link+ "</a><br>");
	}
	document.close();

}
</script>

<div>
<button id="make" onClick="makelinks()">Make Links</button>
</div>
<div>
<textarea id="links" wrap="off"></textarea>
</div>

FlashGot is a handy extension I mentioned earlier works fine with DTA , just select all links and flashgot them to be added to DTA

Nick

Nick