Is IS shaping Rapidshare?

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I have a Rapidshare Premium account.

When I had an uncapped ADSL account, I used Rapidshare extensively. Always got exceptionally good (maxed-out) speeds. Far better than any p2p app.

I don't use Rapidshare as much these days, and usually its on a SAIX account. It still maxes out.

In the last two days, though, I have used it on an IS 3/27 account and it just limps along at less than half the regular speed.

Is it just me, or has anyone else experienced this?
 
Same here, speedtest's confirm international very slow atm
 
No offence to anyone personally, but Rapidshare is the biggest load of crap. There are free and faster ways to get things that don't rely on selfish P2P networks or Rapidshare.

To each their own, I just hate it and only use it when I'm really lazy. Used it earlier for about 50Mb and it was at it's normal 200+Kb for me, almost pulled my ears off waiting for it. :eek:
 
Browser said:
No offence to anyone personally, but Rapidshare is the biggest load of crap. There are free and faster ways to get things that don't rely on selfish P2P networks or Rapidshare.

To each their own, I just hate it and only use it when I'm really lazy. Used it earlier for about 50Mb and it was at it's normal 200+Kb for me, almost pulled my ears off waiting for it. :eek:
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Would you mind sharing those faster easier ways? Send me a pm ;)
 
Browser said:
No offence to anyone personally, but Rapidshare is the biggest load of crap. There are free and faster ways to get things that don't rely on selfish P2P networks or Rapidshare.
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Rapidshare is great if you pay. There are several alternatives. Which is why I don't use it much any more.
 
As a premium user, rapidshare will normally max out your line speed. Presuming that you are useing something like flashget.
 
During the session, I was downloading 40+ files of +-100Mb each using Orbit download manager. At any time there would be 5 active downloads each with 10 concurrent threads. 50 threads in total. I used a variety of mirrors. There did not seem to be much difference in speed from one file to the next. Each file seemed to peak at around 32KB/s.

When doing something like this previously there was a much greater variety in the download speeds, and the connection would max out without fail.
 
killadoob said:
news server grabit FTW
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Yes. Since I don't have uncapped. I generally source in this order.

1. IS news cached. (very fast @ R2/Gb)
3. Local Torrents (variable speed @ R2/Gb)
2. SAIX news (very fast but R15/Gb)
4. IS news uncached. (very slow @ R2/Gb)
5. Rapidshare (very fast @ R50/Gb)
6. International Torrents (variable speed @ R50/Gb)
7. p2p (variable speed @ R50/Gb)

Sometime you're in a hurry, and sometimes you can't get what you want off a news server, so the order is flexible.

NB: R2/Gb for local IS, comes from Openweb pricing. R209 3/28, R159 for 2/27. Solving the simultaneous equation give IS int = R51.97 and IS local = R1.97. With the 30Gb local only you pay more than double this because IS needs more fat to recover Telkom's IPConnect fees.
 
Used to get max speed from Rapidshare on my uncapped IS. Was such a fan that I have 2 premium accounts so that the 25GB in 5 days thing doesn't affect me.
Since maybe beginning August IS has been shaping Rapidshare in sy moer in. During hours/After hours/24/7.
This is bullsh1t.
I'm upset.
 
I got full speed from Rapidshare over the weekend. So maybe they unshaping it over weekends?
 
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Isnt there an ISP that one could use that doesnt go through IS that we can have an uncapped account??
 
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