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Thread ID: 105398 2009-11-30 09:17:00 Slow Rapidshare Speeds On Big Time narutophantom (12610) Press F1
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835089 2009-11-30 21:42:00 Try using downthemall with firefox. I find that generally improves things, I don't use RS but it's worth a go. Last Monday Telecom somehow uncapped big time, I downloaded 1.5GB of top gear in half an hour, averaged 730kbps or something silly. Very, very nice. Shame it only took them about a day to cap it again. :( wratterus (105)
835090 2009-11-30 22:04:00 Yeah.. I don't understand it. It's all over the place.

For example I bought and downloaded Modern Warfare 2 from Steam a week ago. It was downloading at 1.5mbps!!! - It only took around 3/4 hours..

A few days ago I bought and downloaded Batman Arkham Asylum and it was going at 40kb for the whole time, it took 3 days.

I''ve now bought and downloaded Dragon Age: Origins and it's downloading at 200kb solid.

Seriously? What's with that?

I download something from Major Geek and it takes an hour and a half for a 24mb program. Rofl!

Something is screwy.. however. Nothing you can really do about it.
Chris09 (15218)
835091 2009-11-30 22:19:00 Yeah.. I don't understand it. It's all over the place.

For example I bought and downloaded Modern Warfare 2 from Steam a week ago. It was downloading at 1.5mbps!!! - It only took around 3/4 hours..

A few days ago I bought and downloaded Batman Arkham Asylum and it was going at 40kb for the whole time, it took 3 days.

I''ve now bought and downloaded Dragon Age: Origins and it's downloading at 200kb solid.

Seriously? What's with that?

I download something from Major Geek and it takes an hour and a half for a 24mb program. Rofl!

Something is screwy.. however. Nothing you can really do about it.

Yea its really funny. I tried to download something from major geek and it took almost 2 hours (was about 30MB). When it was finished I started a torrent and it was wizzing away at 220KB/s!

They really suck at managin traffic lol.
xyz823 (13649)
835092 2009-11-30 22:45:00 Try using downthemall with firefox. I find that generally improves things, I don't use RS but it's worth a go.

That will only work if you have a Premium RS account - if you don't have an account you're limited to 1 connection no matter what you use
Agent_24 (57)
835093 2009-11-30 23:13:00 I used tried this (www.google.com) and got 5x faster than usual speeds. (Getting upwards of 900KB/s now)

Edit: Just tried the same file without the website and not even getting 100KB/s.
xyz823 (13649)
835094 2009-12-01 00:17:00 That looks good but does it work with just free use or would you have to use Premium RS? Agent_24 (57)
835095 2009-12-01 00:18:00 That looks good but does it work with just free use or would you have to use Premium RS?

I dont know. Give it a go and see.
xyz823 (13649)
835096 2009-12-01 01:06:00 Well since they get you to enter your Rapidshare account details into your download manager I assume it only works for Premium... Agent_24 (57)
835097 2009-12-01 01:35:00 Ok, now that I actually scrolled down and read the page properly... :rolleyes:

Well, it works, but it doesn't seem to go any faster... Maybe I will try later...
Agent_24 (57)
835098 2009-12-01 02:20:00 I used tried this (www.google.com) and got 5x faster than usual speeds. (Getting upwards of 900KB/s now)

Edit: Just tried the same file without the website and not even getting 100KB/s.

What download manager are you using? I tried FDM but can only download 30KB links.
narutophantom (12610)
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