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is there any other download mangers that are good. do not like jdownloader
I can't imagine there is another manager that does half of what JDownloader is capable of and once you have it set-up there is little to no work on your part afterwards.- Works with almost all services you can think of
- Capture links and check the file status
- Handles passwords and captchas
- Extracts Rar files, merges HJSpilt files and deletes containers when successful
- Schedule start and stop times for download and shutdown when completed
- As much customisation and settings as you could want
I'm sure there are others here who use other features or addons as there is a lot more, but this is all I need to keep me happy. Maybe you should look up some online tutorials and give it another go. And if you're already well versed then fair enough - to each his own. I suppose this is where someone posts a much better alternative and makes me look like a fool!
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Voodu Child wrote: »Havent looked into it in any detail, but on brief glance it seems MUCH more expensive.
It's not much more expensive, but it is more expensive.
150GB of traffic in a month would previously cost you 435 rapids (99 rapids for 30gb traffic, and then 14 rapids per 5GB over that).
Now it's costing you 495 rapids - an increase of 60 rapids, which is losing you 20GB of traffic every time you spend 495 rapids.
Under the old system, for €55 you got 1825GB/year at a maximum (i.e. if you used 5GB per day or never let your traffic accumulate over 25GB).
Under the new system, you get 1800GB/year for 5500 rapids (you must purchase 1 year in a block to get this price). Purchasing 2x2000, 1x1000 and 1x500 rapids for a total cost of €55.74.
So the price has increased, marginally. However, unlike the old time-based system, where if you occasionally downloaded from RS then you weren't getting value for money as your account expired after the 1 year anyways , you can stretch your money a little further by turning off auto-renew RapidPro each month and topping up as required when you run out of traffic. I'll last about 12 months with my current rapids, but I've not given them any money in a few months either
I'll last even longer if I can work with the whole RS Happy Hours.
I think once I'm done with RS, I'm done. I don't believe they'll get money out of me again.0 -
TouchingVirus wrote: »It's not much more expensive, but it is more expensive.
Actually, yes, it is much more expensive for some. Including me
Under the old system I could live on 30GB per month with happy hours since i'd rarely if ever go over 300GB per month. Using happy hours was a nuisance to begin with but i'd gotten used to scheduling downloads for the wee hours.
It was costing me something like €12 per year.
Now the minimum I can spend is €55 or €60 (or whatever) per year. Four or five times more expensive. So yes, that is much more expensive in my book. I had a good 6 months left before the changes and now I have 1 month.
Obviously other people will have a different viewpoint depending on how they use the service.0 -
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Voodu Child wrote: »Actually, yes, it is much more expensive for some. Including me
Under the old system I could live on 30GB per month with happy hours since i'd rarely if ever go over 300GB per month. Using happy hours was a nuisance to begin with but i'd gotten used to scheduling downloads for the wee hours.
It was costing me something like €12 per year.
Now the minimum I can spend is €55 or €60 (or whatever) per year. Four or five times more expensive. So yes, that is much more expensive in my book. I had a good 6 months left before the changes and now I have 1 month.
Obviously other people will have a different viewpoint depending on how they use the service.
Your logic only works out if it was costing more for the same service. It isn't - it's costing more, for more.
Now instead of renewing RapidPro once per month and getting 30gb of traffic every time, you renew RapidPro once and get 150GB of traffic. That will last you five months taking your current usage of 30gb per month. You can disable the auto-renewal of RapidPro every month, I've done it just there.
If you play it clever you'll notice that you can buy 100GB of traffic for 280 rapids. This is a cost of 2.8 rapids/gb, whereas using RapidPro you're paying 495 for 150Gb, or 3.3 rapids/gb. For people who just use RS for downloading, or for users who upload but don't care about "secure" storage, aka files that don't expire due to inactivity, this is the much better option for spending rapids.
The only way it works out MUCH more expensive, is if you're using RS to host your files securely. If you want secure storage, you need to be a RapidPro user with time left on your account, so you're forced to pay those 495 rapids per month, whether you want to or not.
Just as a little addendum for you... 30GB/month = 360GB per year. Let's forget about happy hours. You say it was costing you €12 per year. Well 400GB of traffic costs 1120 rapids, which works out at €11.15 worth of rapids. I know you can't buy €11.15 of rapids, you need to buy €16 worth, but you couldn't buy €12 worth of rapids before the latest change.
I do agree with you that it was nicer when the amounts and costs were smaller, but realise that you're not really losing out or if you are, you're only losing a small bit.0 -
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TouchingVirus wrote: »I'm under the impression that if I logged into my premium account, transferred 280 rapids to my old-school collector account (which was auto-converted into a premium account way back in June, and has 0 rapids total, and obviously has 0 days left on it's RapidPro) and clicked "Buy Traffic - 100GB" that I'd be perfectly able to download 100GB worth of stuff using that account.
Why can your account not be used if you're not a RapidPro member but have traffic left? Have you let your RapidPro lapse and then been told you can't use your account until you're a RapidPro user again? If what you're saying is true then there is no point in the option to "Disable auto-renewal of RapidPro"
Thats not the way it works. You cannot buy traffic for an account unless it is active. And it costs 495 Rapids (~€6) for an active account for one month. It doesnt matter how much traffic you have left over, after your 30 days are up your account is frozen and then you have to top it up again with another 495 Rapids.
Yes, when you re-activate your account you still have unused traffic, but that's not my point. The point is that the very cheapest option is now €60 per year whereas previously a light user (or happy hour user) could get by on 99 Rapids per month (whatever that works out as <€15 per year).
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Clearly you can't top up when you're not a RapidPro user, which is disappointing. But have you checked if you can use remaining traffic when rapidpro is inactive?It really seems like a huge oversight if you can't, and does increase the cost significantly for me too
This change sort of blows now tbh, I seem to have had it all wrong. The way I thought it worked was far superior to the way it actually works.
I'm on the lookout for a new filehost - suggestions?0 -
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As a fairly heavy downloader, I've always done the majority of it at night so as not to be leeching bandwidth from my neighbours during the day (seems only fair to me). When Rapidshare brought in happy hours, what started as a bonus quickly became a necessity with changing terms and increased caps. Without it, I would have abandoned Rapidshare long ago.
I think this new change was at least partially brought about because of happy hours. I was surprised how many people didn't seem to know about this when the first round of changes came into effect in June and would imagine a much greater percentage of users are making use of it. As a consequence, people are only sipping on their rapids making them last a lot longer. The seven months I had left on my original account I could now stretch to three years.
From a business point of view I can fully understand why they would feel the need to plug this hole. But surely they could have come up with a compromise solution. It's now costing at least €60 a year, which is more than it ever cost before! I know we're getting more for it, but I was always able to make the older terms work for me. They're forcing a much higher package on everyone that most people just don't need. This just seems cynical to me and a slap in the face to users who have stayed with them through all their screwing around over the last four months.
Needless to say, I won't be renewing my service with them when my rapids run out. I've got seven months worth left but I think the rate of abandonment is only going to increase and I doubt it'll still be tolerable to stick with them alone until then. But who to switch to?
Before the exodus started, Megaupload always seemed like the king-to-be. Hotfile now seems the most dominant with Netload and MU not far behind. Fileserve also seems to be gaining a lot of traction recently. Whatever happens, in the short to medium term, none of them will have the market share Rapidshare used to command. Having multiple accounts seems to be the best solution. A friend of mine and I used to share a Rapidshare account. Can anyone tell me if this is possible with the likes of Hotfile, Megaupload etc?
Didn't realise I'd written that much. Sorry for the long spiel. And in writing this... I've just made it even longer - Alanis Morisette could learn somthing from this. I'll go now.
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