rapidshare problem

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I have a problem to download files from rapidshare since last week.

I dont have a premium account so i do it as a free member.

when i start to save the file into my PC the download speed slowly gets to 1kb or less than that and freezes there, the download doesnt cancel itself but i dont download anything and i dont know whats happening.

Can anyone help or have any idea what can be the problem?

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Sounds like the normal experience of free Rapidshare users. It makes free users wait for a time before the download will commence then it downloads very slowly and then stops … waits a while and it downloads very slowly again … then it stops … you get the picture.

This has been the experience in Rapidshare for a long time … it is also what they tell you very clearly up front … you get a terribly slow experience unless you pay. Simple answer to this one is (and it has nothing at all to do with avast) that Rapidshare is a really really bad choice unless you want to pay for its service.

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This has been the experience in Rapidshare for a long time
The same can be said for: easy-share.com depositfiles.com uploading.com megaupload.com and a host of other services in this category. Since a lot of the files from these services contain an unwanted payload, they are also good places to avoid. :)
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You could try 4shared.com - free file sharing and storage - http://www.4shared.com/

That too has a bit of a pregnant pause to start on free accounts, but I didn’t see any changes in download speed/continuity, but on dial-up it would be hard to tell as everything is slow ;D

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David,
Your fastest download speed is our worst nightmare. ;D

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Yes, life in the slow lane isn’t so bad, some days my connection speed absolutely blazes along at 52.0 Kbps. That’s supposedly a smidgen over 6 KB per sec or a theoretical download of 160 seconds per MB downloaded. Theory doesn’t work like that though, my usual is 200 seconds (3 1//3 minutes) per MB download ;D

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That seems about normal for a 52K connection. That is what I have 99% of the time.

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David,

I think you have hit on the one circumstance where your connection could look like new age broadband compared with free Rapidshare.

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Perhaps they need to change the name to snailshare.com ;D

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Only if you use the free version. :cry:

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Like David, I’ll stay with http://www.4shared.com/
Slowness and malware come with the others…

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The malware comes with the file you download not necessarily the service you’re using.

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You’re fully right. I make a generalization.

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Yes, life in the slow lane isn't so bad, some days my connection speed absolutely blazes along at 52.0 Kbps. That's supposedly a smidgen over 6 KB per sec or a theoretical download of 160 seconds per MB downloaded. Theory doesn't work like that though, my usual is 200 seconds (3 1//3 minutes) per MB download

hi David R.
If you dont mind,why are you still loyal to your slow dial up connection?I m only curious ;D

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It has nothing to do with loyalty, but distance from the telephone exchange.

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;D thanks for the reply David R :smiley:

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Really it is like money.
You can always spend as much as you make.
When i was on slow dial-up I moaned about speed.
Now I have a fairly fast (3mg) connection and I still moan about speed.