RAPID SHARE - Can't download :(

I can never download from Rapid share via the FREE account option. Any tricks?

I had a premium account in the past which enabled me to download at blistering speeds, but when I choose FREE now, it always says my IP is downloading or it says the download link is invalid although I know it is

helpppppp

 

I think we've covered this before. Either because you live in Dubai, or possibly because your ISP gets really thrifty with IP addresses and is basically splitting one IP address between you and a bunch of different people (by assigning each individual to just one of the ports on the same IP address), so that, from the outside, the lot of you look like a single person doing very rapid-fire multiple requests all the time. It's efficient, but it also means that any time someone else who's on the same public IP is using rapidshare, you won't be able to.

 

Very logical settlement Shyster1

 

This leaves me stranded then

 

dubai, or singapore too... think singapore has a big wide filternet for outgoing connections... whatismyip.com can see the unique IP address, but RS chooses to see the 'filternet' ip which is shared among many people


look at rapidshare premium generating sites... www.xrapidshare.com was one working a week ago,... there are more but they keep changingi

 

I suppose you have tried downloading though a proxy server, never tried with rapidshare so don't know if it would work.

 

thanks alot

 

I had read that about Singapore as well; too bad. It is a little surprising that Rapidshare doesn't try to "look through" the apparent IP to try and "see" if there's a different IP making requests through a proxy, because I would imagine that some more sophisticated users might try using various anonymizing proxies to make it look like they are many different individuals each using the free download instead of one individual making all those free downloads, in order to avoid Rapidshare's limits on free downloads.