Why does RapidShare not work using iBurst?

seeing that there are so many smart people here that cannot figure out any non-illegal use for P2P networks, let me teach you some maths: I want a movie, I go to the video shop, rent a dvd, make a copy, cost R15, I download it from P2P, it is ~R58 per gig, 700MB will result in R40 and the quality will be somewhat lower than that of the dvd copy, well R15 is quite a bit less thatn R40 by the way! Well, I admit, it is more inconveninent to go to the video shop than download it, but that is besides the point, if I needed the internet for downloading pirated movies, I surely have a cheaper alternative!

about the iBurst modem, well, surely if the modem cannot be used for internet connection that supports the protocols that you need, you still can use it for decoration or something! By the way, most of the weekends while I had iBurst, I was connected via dial up modem as well, so I can do the things that I would normally do, simply because the brillian extremely reliable iBurst was down (or rather the protocols that are essential for me were not working) for about 48 out of the 50 days I had it! Let see, I am not too good at maths but that is like 96% downtime!

Ok, I will try to refrain myself from expressing my honest opinion on the topic from now on, obvioulsy there are many people which are much less demanding than me, so probably it works for most!

The only sad thing is that SA will stay 10 years or so behind the rest of the world simply because most South Africans are to short sighted to see the big picture and demand some quality, it is quite sad that people so easily accept to not only pay ridiculous prices for low spec services, but they are also very happy if the service doesn't perform consistently or it doesn't do what it is meant to do!
 
isnt that just true from most south africans...
they like racehorses with blinkers on!!!!!
 
Of course there are non-illegal uses for P2P, they just arent nearly as big as the illegal use for it. It hardly justifies making it a normal protocol that many people need or even want to use.

And your 96% downtime is again going totally over board with your anger at the service. And 20000 peopel manage to use it just fine, and many of them are highly technical, yet it seems pretty much only you have this huge problem which makes Iburst unusable and completley useless. its just a bit silly see..

But look I do get your problem, I would be very pissed if I needed something on Iburst and the protocol didnt work. But that isnt the case for me, and my uptime is fine.
You obviously had a problem so you moved to ADSL, great. But it doesnt make Iburst completley useless and the worst service ever.. bla bla.
 
I have had my iburst for just over a year now and I would be surprised if there was a cumulative time on a hour in that period where I have need to use the internet and not have been able to because of a network proble.

The point of the above is thaat you swordfish seem to believe that your poor experience of iBurst is symptomatic of everyone's use of the service. That's not true.

As a matter of interest, does ADSL have no shaping?
 
SAIX ADSL has plenty of shaping. but apparently works fater than 64kb for its shaped services most of the time. Speeds vary on shaped protocols though.

IS however dont have shaping, but the use sattelites similar to Iburst. Well im not shure what exactly they use but its not cable international connections like SAIX's SAT-3 cable.

As a matter of interest for me, can Iburst offer uncapped, or at least high cap, local access. Is it in their power to do so, or will it not be a option like it is to ADSL providers because they dont actualy control the locla scene. They would still have to pay Telkom fee's ect for local access, so im geussing uncaped is not really feasable..
 
Uncapped or 30GB local would be wonderful. Would be interesting to find out if there are any infrastructure issues they would have with making that available.

I've never used DC++ but weren't people able to access at full speed there after being capped?
 
Yes apparently, but onyl between peopel n the saem area, and it wasnt very reliable.

I never got any better speeds than normal on there becuase I am on Cape Town .A ndthis was only faster becasue it was between Iburst users. I,like you, want local internet access.

But of course if they wanted to let us all use P2P between ourselves at high speeds (above 1mb/s, why not?) it would be great.
 
swordfish1 said:
seeing that there are so many smart people here that cannot figure out any non-illegal use for P2P networks, let me teach you some maths: I want a movie, I go to the video shop, rent a dvd, make a copy, cost R15, I download it from P2P, it is ~R58 per gig, 700MB will result in R40 and the quality will be somewhat lower than that of the dvd copy, well R15 is quite a bit less thatn R40 by the way! Well, I admit, it is more inconveninent to go to the video shop than download it, but that is besides the point, if I needed the internet for downloading pirated movies, I surely have a cheaper alternative!

about the iBurst modem, well, surely if the modem cannot be used for internet connection that supports the protocols that you need, you still can use it for decoration or something! By the way, most of the weekends while I had iBurst, I was connected via dial up modem as well, so I can do the things that I would normally do, simply because the brillian extremely reliable iBurst was down (or rather the protocols that are essential for me were not working) for about 48 out of the 50 days I had it! Let see, I am not too good at maths but that is like 96% downtime!

Ok, I will try to refrain myself from expressing my honest opinion on the topic from now on, obvioulsy there are many people which are much less demanding than me, so probably it works for most!

The only sad thing is that SA will stay 10 years or so behind the rest of the world simply because most South Africans are to short sighted to see the big picture and demand some quality, it is quite sad that people so easily accept to not only pay ridiculous prices for low spec services, but they are also very happy if the service doesn't perform consistently or it doesn't do what it is meant to do!
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I have to agree on some points raised...I lived in UK for 2 years and iburst would have gone belly up im sure of it. All service levels in SA regarding broadvand is much lower than that of the UK and we pay more...much more!. I have had many many issues using iburst. Some months i cant play WoW because of some mysterious packet loss....other times included my tower being offline for 2 days and lets not forget the infamous death by cap issue to name a few. People in this country accept things to easilly cause they dont know better. My adsl line in the UK was installed in under 2 weeks and had close to 0% downtime no caps no shapping crap. I still use iburst for 1 reason...the unlimited 64k and there are times when there's no issues.
 
Shaun, any response from the technical people on this? I am trying to finish off my 3 GB today and receive a message that I am already downlaoding a file. Obviously RapidShare cannot pick my own IP as we are all behind your proxy. Can you fix it?

Regards,
Concerned

Shaun Green said:
I have put this problem through to the tech guys and will respond as soon as I have an answer for you.

Cheers

Shaun
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P0tenc said:
I have to agree on some points raised...I lived in UK for 2 years and iburst would have gone belly up im sure of it. All service levels in SA regarding broadvand is much lower than that of the UK and we pay more...much more!. I have had many many issues using iburst. Some months i cant play WoW because of some mysterious packet loss....other times included my tower being offline for 2 days and lets not forget the infamous death by cap issue to name a few. People in this country accept things to easilly cause they dont know better. My adsl line in the UK was installed in under 2 weeks and had close to 0% downtime no caps no shapping crap. I still use iburst for 1 reason...the unlimited 64k and there are times when there's no issues.
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No they dont. They have no options. If you say iburst would go belly up in the UK how would telkom's adsl offerings do against the competition. In the South African context Iburst is doing OK.
 
SA consumers in my eyes are becoming a lot more awar of their rights and i get the feeling that consumer activism is on the increase. It is no where near the level seen in 1st world countries but that is to be understood, as among others lack of competition plays a role.

ites like these, hellopeter and hellkom certainly show that awareness is rising.
 
WRT Rapidshare, I think it is because of the proxy issue. MegaUpload has a similar problem BUT they allow you to choose what port they should test your IP on. So, you choose the port that reflects your true IP and off your go. Try using one of the open proxies, but that will probably not work because someone else is probably using that proxy as well. I would suggest that you try using something like proxyhunter and find your own open proxy.

Now, with p2p and pr0n, warez etc - you guys do realise that BitTorrent was developed for legit use and was used as such by people and companies - especially for linux distro's. Also, Skype uses p2p technology - that's a legitimate use if there ever was one.
 
I don't think anyone has a problem with p2p technology, it's the people that use the technology to download as much as the pipe can handle that need to be controlled, for the benefit of everyone else using the contested service.
 
I'm leaving on Sat for an overseas trip. Can anyone help me out with a decent proxy so i can chow my 3 gigs, and not throw them away?
 
I will be ur proxy. Just send me ur username and password and I will use ur 3 gigs - promise!!!
 
^ lol.. damn, i was going to say that.

Rather give your user info to me man, I promise ill make much better use of it. This sabagamma guy has 8 posts.. he'll steal your account for all you know.
 
none of you will be able to use his login as it is linked to the modem's serial number, similar to an old Mnet decoder.

If I am wrong about the serial thing, well then...."Welcome to Trixy's Proxy services, hope you enjoy your stay".
 
oh.. lol damn your right.

Well just send over your modem while your gone, it will be safer with me that sitting at your house.
 
codemonkey said:
I don't think anyone has a problem with p2p technology, it's the people that use the technology to download as much as the pipe can handle that need to be controlled, for the benefit of everyone else using the contested service.
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If I download game demos all the time will I not be achieving the same thing?
 
Jongi said:
If I download game demos all the time will I not be achieving the same thing?
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You will be, but without the permemant crap that P2P sends out, connecting to lots of peers, the server, searches to and from your machine, some other stuff im shure ... all not too bad... but if everyone used P2P, even not to download that much, it might have a impact... im not really shure my self, but P2P does make alot of traffic even when you arent activley downloading, and theres that upload stream.

Oh, but the real point is that i bet only about a tiny percentage of Ibursters actually download game demos. Its quite hard for the standard peron to find free big stuff to donwload, besides game demos, linux distros and a few slightly sizeable apps. But Iburst is rather home user orientated, and most people just wont be downloading those things. We are in the minority you know, so our interests arent really that important to Iburst. Plus if more people used P2P im shured they also be hitting their cap every month and going over that amount too on 64kb. Which costs Iburst money.
 
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