If you were to leave Rapidshare.com who would replace them?

Toolerc

hey just read a few of the dl speeds here and I'm getting nowhere near that.
I have UPC 20mb and rapidshare was ave. 200-300mpb (some people here mentioned up to 1.5??)
RS account lapsed and signed up to MU as most links seemed to be there,but anything I've tried in the last few days is down at 100mbps.

(1) Were the speeds on RS unusually low?
(2) Anything I could do about it?
(3) Is HF any better or should I just go back to RS?

Cheers

yoyo

Toolerc wrote: »

hey just read a few of the dl speeds here and I'm getting nowhere near that.
I have UPC 20mb and rapidshare was ave. 200-300mpb (some people here mentioned up to 1.5??)
RS account lapsed and signed up to MU as most links seemed to be there,but anything I've tried in the last few days is down at 100mbps.

(1) Were the speeds on RS unusually low?
(2) Anything I could do about it?
(3) Is HF any better or should I just go back to RS?

Cheers

I use fileserve with UPC and they are the most relyable for speeds yet appart from rapidshare (megaupload & hotfile just got useless), you need to use jdownloader I notice which is a pain (can't seem to configure fileserve in flashget) but it does hit top speed when spanning multiple links

Nick

Voodu Child

nisior wrote: »

I was using Rapidshare for a long while but the links were becoming less and less common so I got Hotfile (well I didn't, my boyfriend did) and it's alright. The speed isn't as good but it seems alot more people are using it so it seems like a good choice for right now until the another one becomes the most popular one.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the situation has pretty much changed overnight and you won't find many people using HF from now own.

Toolerc

yoyo wrote: »

Originally Posted by Toolerc
hey just read a few of the dl speeds here and I'm getting nowhere near that.
I have UPC 20mb and rapidshare was ave. 200-300mpb (some people here mentioned up to 1.5??)
RS account lapsed and signed up to MU as most links seemed to be there,but anything I've tried in the last few days is down at 100mbps.

(1) Were the speeds on RS unusually low?
(2) Anything I could do about it?
(3) Is HF any better or should I just go back to RS?

Cheers


I use fileserve with UPC and they are the most relyable for speeds yet appart from rapidshare (megaupload & hotfile just got useless), you need to use jdownloader I notice which is a pain (can't seem to configure fileserve in flashget) but it does hit top speed when spanning multiple links

Nick

Thanks for that,
What kind of speeds are you talking about with fileserve?
Anyone else provide some comparison speeds with RS, MU, FS etc over a 20mb UPC connection?

yoyo

Toolerc wrote: »

Thanks for that,
What kind of speeds are you talking about with fileserve?
Anyone else provide some comparison speeds with RS, MU, FS etc over a 20mb UPC connection?

On 30 meg I'll get full speed with multiple links, single links dont go that fast, but will max the connection out with 3 or more, rapidshare are definitely the best speeds, you pay the premium though, buy a month of fileserve to try it out would be my reccomendation, thats what I did, and then baught a 6 month sub after

Nick

Fighting Irish

Megaupload.com

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Eh
Its the exact same content. When scene groups release new content, they get uploaded to torrent, fileshare and usenet at the same time. Usenet is just another method of obtaining that same file

OK agreed but it's so much easier to find stuff on RS etc

PogMoThoin

Fighting Irish wrote: »

OK agreed but it's so much easier to find stuff on RS etc

The search functions are miles better on Usenet than any fileshare and the links never get removed

Sobanek

Megashare.com

I use both Hotfile and Megaupload.
Get 1.2 MB/s download on Hotfile with my computer
On Megaupload (depending on the file) between 100KB and 2.8 MB/s
Using my rapidleech I get 6.3 MB/s average with Hotfile and 8.9 MB/s average with Megaupload

kiwi_40

Voodu Child wrote: »

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the situation has pretty much changed overnight and you won't find many people using HF from now own.

Whats happened to Hotfile, no one is using it now. Might move to Fileserve

techguy

Megashare.com

kiwi_40 wrote: »

Whats happened to Hotfile, no one is using it now. Might move to Fileserve

Yea, I was just about to jump ship to hotfile but there seems to have been an exodus from there too..

I've just bought 30days of filesonic.com for $9 and it seems good so far.

The only issue i'm having right now is that sometimes I get errors on some links when downloading with jDownloader.. I need to reset the file to continue. Not sure whats up there.

Voodu Child

kiwi_40 wrote: »

Whats happened to Hotfile, no one is using it now. Might move to Fileserve

They closed tonnes of accounts around the 18th/19th Feb.

kiwi_40

Ive been using hotfile for about a year and it was great, my account expires in 2 weeks, nice timing. Will move to Filesonic or fileserve myself now, will do a one month to see what its like. I use IDM for downloading, its brilliant,never fails

kiwi_40

Voodu Child wrote: »

They closed tonnes of accounts around the 18th/19th Feb.

Yeah, just found that on the net in the last 5 mins. Kiss of death, they will be gone within 6 months, no one will re-join, who wants to share photographs