Rapidshare happy hours

nobodythere

Rapidshare says it's rapidshare happy hour (i.e. no download limits), just thought I'd let all those who like to pillage and loot know!

Edit: Oops, wrong forum sorry
Double edit: Never mind, it's gone now anyway....

Basq

Yep, they had one this time last night as well.

KnifeWRENCH

OOOH, Is this where I FINALLY get to say:

"In before lock"

YES!!!!:pac::pac: My life is almost complete now...

Basq

Don't think it'll be locked.. merely moved..
















.. could be wrong though!

xOxSinéadxOx

still heeeere....eeeep i love happy hours!!!!!!! :D

KnifeWRENCH

Awwww:(

*resumes depression

AlmightyCushion

Moved from After Hours. What exactly are happy hours?

xOxSinéadxOx

*sob*

it's been moved.







































*sniffle*

Basq

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Moved from After Hours. What exactly are happy hours?

It's when Rapidshare doesn't have a download limit for free users for an hour.

Normally the free users can only download one file (of up to 100MB) per hour.

On Happy Hour, you can download as much as you want for that hour.

AlmightyCushion

Ah so i doesn't affect me whatsoever as a premium user. It would be nice if anything you downloaded as a premium user didn't contribute to your download limit (25GBs in 5 days) as I'm pretty close to that at the moment.

Basq

You... pay... to... download?







I'm sorry.. doesn't compute!

leninbenjamin

is it over already? i went to download one, got the green happy hour thing, 30 secs try to DL another and i have to wait? happy hour my ass...

HOPPA LIES!!!

their clocks are at least 5 minutes fast!!!1

AlmightyCushion

Consistant speeds unlike torrents, I'd gladly pay €50 a year for that.

popinfresh101

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Consistant speeds unlike torrents, I'd gladly pay €50 a year for that.

Dont no what torrent sites your on there is loads out there that you get your max download all the time from

Basq

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Consistant speeds unlike torrents, I'd gladly pay €50 a year for that.

Public torrents maybe... but private trackers ftw!

popinfresh101

basquille wrote: »

Public torrents maybe... but private trackers ftw!

yes public torrnt sites suck private sites are the oly way

RoyalMarine

wouldnt it be nice if i had a pm sometime soon from someone on boards who could send me an invite to one of these "private sites" wink wink.

^^ is not breaking any rules

phantom_lord

yeah rapidshare is miles better than torrents. not close

fatal

I bought a rapidshare account just over a year ago.With the amount I download and the awesome download speeds,it was definitely worth buying it.I would recommend it to anyone who is a heavy downloader

popinfresh101

being only able to download 25 gb in 5 days is bull ive donloaded torrents that are over 50 gb so on rappidshare it would take 2 weeks and not get any other downloads

Cianos

Rapidshare is brilliant, and using the forums to get links through is a great way of seeing what kind of files you're downloading before you choose which batch to get.

Definitely worth the 50squid a year imo. In fact I don't get why people go through the hassle of waiting for happy hours or trying to get ppl to download their files when a full year of downloading is so cheap

fatal

Cianos wrote: »

Rapidshare is brilliant, and using the forums to get links through is a great way of seeing what kind of files you're downloading before you choose which batch to get.

Definitely worth the 50squid a year imo. In fact I don't get why people go through the hassle of waiting for happy hours or trying to get ppl to download their files when a full year of downloading is so cheap

I agree.I use a particular forum with 500,000+ members for links.The links are usually up within a few hours of something airing on tv.I've never really had a problem finding anything

Sherifu

/rubs premium account *whistles*

conzy

How well does rapidshare work on college networks?

Might invest next year

ronrar

little secret for you. after you download one part if you want to download more unplug the broadband connection from the wall plug it back in and your good to go. it also works on megaupload

zAbbo

ronrar wrote: »

little secret for you. after you download one part if you want to download more unplug the broadband connection from the wall plug it back in and your good to go. it also works on megaupload

That only works on short lease dhcp setups.

usenet>rapidshare

Creamy Goodness

conzymaher wrote: »

How well does rapidshare work on college networks?

Might invest next year

considering it works over http, it works quite well, very hard for sysadmins to block as well.

i'm able to pull down about 5 mega bytes a second in college.

Sherifu

Cremo wrote: »

considering it works over http, it works quite well, very hard for sysadmins to block as well.

i'm able to pull down about 5 mega bytes a second in college.

If they decide to block rapidshare ips, you could be shagged.

Creamy Goodness

ok let me rephrase part of my last post.

...very hard for incompentant sysadmins to block as well.

Sherifu

Cremo wrote: »

ok let me rephrase part of my last post.

...very hard for incompentant sysadmins to block as well.

It's worth a shot but don't be too surprised if they shut it down. All depends on the levels of usage imo.

fatal

Ive been using my rapidshare account in college for the last year at least and ive never had any problems with it.The dl speeds are superfast!!!
Before I got a premium account I used an application to reset the time between downloads.The annoying thing is that you have to disconnect and open the application in between downloads in order to keep downloading.

AlmightyCushion

conzymaher wrote: »

How well does rapidshare work on college networks?

Might invest next year

Very, very nicely. Using a download manager (idm or fdm) downloading 4 parts simultaneously, the combined speeds of all four parts would be around 4-6MBps (yes bytes ). Sometimes though it would go as high as 10MBps although it never really stayed that high for long. Only problem is with speeds like that you wouldn't be long eating into the download limit.

conzy

/me starts saving for a Rapidshare account

nobodythere

If you couldn't possibly do 25gb a week (like I can't) go splits on a years subscription between 2/3 of ye. €20 a year, handy.

Keep the college downloading to a minimum or it'll be gone in a second.

popinfresh101

Whoo that sucks not being able to do 25 gig in a week i do that in a day thats if ive got a lot to get

grasshopa wrote: »

If you couldn't possibly do 25gb a week (like I can't) go splits on a years subscription between 2/3 of ye. €20 a year, handy.

Keep the college downloading to a minimum or it'll be gone in a second.

Sherifu

popinfresh101 wrote: »

Whoo that sucks not being able to do 25 gig in a week i do that in a day thats if ive got a lot to get

gazzer

How does rapidshare work?? Does it work like BitComet, Utorrent etc where you use it to download torrents from various torent sites? If not where do you get the files to download on Rapidshare?

I use torrents a lot so if Rapidshare is as easy to use as that I would buy it.

Sherifu

gazzer wrote: »

How does rapidshare work?? Does it work like BitComet, Utorrent etc where you use it to download torrents from various torent sites?

No, it works using a direct http connection to their servers at high speeds.

gazzer wrote: »

If not where do you get the files to download on Rapidshare?

Questions like that could get you or someone else banned. /banbait

gazzer wrote: »

I use torrents a lot so if Rapidshare is as easy to use as that I would buy it.

Easier imo. Though either aren't that hard.

RoyalMarine

gazzer wrote: »

How does rapidshare work?? Does it work like BitComet, Utorrent etc where you use it to download torrents from various torent sites? If not where do you get the files to download on Rapidshare?

I use torrents a lot so if Rapidshare is as easy to use as that I would buy it.

its not like utorrent or other p2p software.

what you do is buy an account.
then you upload your ownfiles. they are kept private.
if you want to give them to someone to download, then you can. they are stored on a server in germany.
there are lots of places you can go to get links for stuff you want.