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Ok Guys.

Time for some serious downloading. Guys like me, using dialup internet ( even for broadband users ) Rapidshare can be a pain in the A$$ when it comes to download files as free users.

I tried many other forums and web search and downloaded many utilities and proxies, none of em works atm.

Come on guys. Share your rapidshare experience here. And let the ball rolls.

Can anyone share their premium account with me ?

PS(To Moderator): Think you guys should make this a sticky topic ?

Make this a sticky because?

Rapidshare is a pain, that's one of the reasons many people use their own webspace, which is incidentally also available here for free.

No more unreliable online uploaders.

There are so many better upload services, but everyone uses rapidshare... no idea way . Especially the short session timeout is anoying, which is imho the most anoying part of it all. If you could open it in background and come back later, it would be pretty much okay.

It's not like it's expensive or something. Cheapest is 3 euro's per 2 days. If you really want it purchase it..

Most people use it, because they like the speed. There are other sites similar to rapidshare but those are most of the time slower than rapidshare. Plus they have ads.(I know I know, they can use a popup blocker) Waiting time is annoying, I agree.

Its not about the speed. Its the free resourses they got. I got 24/7 internet but dialup with a max dl speed of 16 KBPS. what big thing can i do with that speed eh, no matter how many resourses and free slots any download/upload sites got. Im stucked anyway. sheesh !! I feel like crying now. dammm !!

login: jojo-3july
pass: aivanet

Just use RapGet to queue up your files and let this tool download for you;
http://www.rapget.com/en/

to get by on rapidshare without spending a penny, wait until they give away 50 free accounts or something (just keep checking http://www.rapidshare.de/cgi-bin/freeaccounts.cgi or whatever)

signup then you have 48 days to get 10,000 points (1 point for each non-paying download one of your files gets )

and when you have 10,000 you can extend your account 30 days

NOTE: when you get the free account you can only download premium with it for 2 days then you have to get 10,000 and extend your account otherwise after 45 days itll be deleted

Jeed wrote:to get by on rapidshare without spending a penny, wait until they give away 50 free accounts or something (just keep checking http://www.rapidshare.de/cgi-bin/freeaccounts.cgi or whatever)

signup then you have 48 days to get 10,000 points (1 point for each non-paying download one of your files gets )

and when you have 10,000 you can extend your account 30 days

NOTE: when you get the free account you can only download premium with it for 2 days then you have to get 10,000 and extend your account otherwise after 45 days itll be deleted

It's http://rapidshare.de/cgi-bin/freeaccount.cgi
Thanks for posting this, didn't know they gave away free accounts..

cose the pasword and login name posted isn`t update
plus the rapget tool is waiting for conection over and over whitout geting the files

np RomMaster , i didnt remember the url at that time thats why i said or whatever after it lol

when they do make sure you get 2 0r 3 by using different emails each time otherwise 2 days downloading with one account is only 3000mb a day so sometimes more is needed

Maybe RapidCheck might come in handy. It's supposed to check whether there are any free accounts to be handed out at predetermined intervals. Note that I haven't tried it, just read about it a while ago.

Not a pain in the ass at all.... well, it's the pain when it comes to dowloading seperate big files. The times limit.... geeez.. But I do not have any problems with it at all.

RapidShare is a One-click hosting site that operates from Germany and is financed by Google AdSense and by the subscriptions of paying users. It also claims to be the world's largest in its scope.

It is a free service, and any user can upload files of up to 100 MB without registration. The user is then supplied with a unique URL, which locates the file and enables anyone with whom the uploader shares it to download the file. Free downloaders are forced to wait 20 seconds and about 10 seconds more for each 10 MB (however, with files under 1 MB there is no waiting). Registration and payment bring several perks such as download of several files simultaneously, queue-skipping, and the facility to interrupt and re-start download. However, even Premium users have no way to search the server for content (all files have to be downloaded by following a given URL).

Even though RapidShare does not allow searching against files hosted, generic search engines like Google or specialized file search engines like Funfail or Rapidshared are commonly used to find download links about a specific subject.
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Site Promotions

In June 2006, RapidShare started giving away free Premium accounts valid for two days every so often. Free account users are then offered the chance of extending their accounts to 1 month if they gain 10,000 "Premium points", where one point is awarded for every time anyone downloads a file uploaded by a Premium account. Interest in these free accounts is very widespread, and often thousands are registered within several minutes. There even are a few specifically-developed programs that periodically poll the RapidShare site to check if new free Premium accounts are being offered.

Downloads are almost not supported by conventional download managers. However, a plethora of free software allowing leeching of hosted files are released and updated every few weeks or so, resulting in Rapidshare regularly revamping its protection schemes.
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Controversy

Free Users suffer in comparison to Premium users, though this is understandable due to the amount of bandwidth used by RapidShare. There is also problems with certain ISPs, such as NTL, who are unable to download files off of RapidShare.