help please with downloads from rapidshare

You'll please excuse the ignorance but can anyone explain how I go about down loading from rapidshare?

I have clicked on some of the links (file address) for some video clips on this site, but only get as far as the rapishare page which tries to sell their product? Do I need to do this?

Thank you for any replys

You can either buy their product (recommended) ...

or


Use the FREE download feature (logically very restricted ...)

I have moved it to here from the default forum.
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at the moment this is all I am getting from RS. i.e. all day so no porn downloads. Anyone else?

Network Error (tcp_error)

A communication error occurred: ""
The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again at a later time.

For assistance, contact your network support team.

The few times I have downloade from them today, rosso_rat, has been truble free.
Sounds more like you have a problem with your ISP.
They might have put a restriction on you to connect to RS.
Wait and see if it clears.
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I'm getting the same problem today rosso_rat----had the problem also yesterday for a while but it cleared.hopefully today is a similar problem and it will eventually clear

Hey 'rosso_rat' you might like to know that you are not alone. Here's part of an e-mail I sent to Rapidshare earlier today,

'Please read this carefully before you reply.

To quote your reply,

'Please check all your network elements and configurations. It happens often
that the problems you experience are only results of filters, proxy server,
router or firewall rules on your or on your internet service provider side.'

With reference to the above statement, I have been a regular up/downloader
from
Rapidshare for over 2 years. There has been no change in my internet
settings
during this time period. This is not anything to do with filters, proxy
server,
router or firewall rules. In the past I have had no difficulties connecting
to
rapidshare. This problem has only recently occurred. Also, as I previously
stated
many other UK users have started to experience the same problem as me
during the same time period. This cannot just be coincidence.
Rapidshare is the only site on the Net that has this problem. I can connect
to
any other working internet site without difficulty.
Today I have been unable to connect to Rapidshare through my browser at any
time.
However, I can 'Ping' Rapidshare with no problem.
I have an excellent connection between my computer and my ISP with 8Mb
broadband
and am currently downloading a file at around 5.5mbs whilst I write this.
BT (British Telecoms) my Internet Provider, tell me that they have not
blocked Rapidshare,
nor have they installed any filters recently.
With the above in mind, it is obvious that this is only a Rapidshare fault.

As you can see from the above I am now unable to connect and get the same error as you. I've been in conversation with Rapid for some time and they have so far blamed anyone they can think of other than themselves.

However, frustration has driven me on and I have a temporary solution as a work around for now. If you are a premium user you should be able to open your home page at, https://ssl.rapidshare.com/cgi-bin/premiumzone.cgi
Go to 'options', tick 'direct downloads', then 'save'.
Now when you want to download a file use the following example.
eg.
dead link change to--
https://ssl.rapidshare.com/files/00000000/Desktop.part1.rar
Click 'Go' and the download will pop-up for you to save.

Let me know if this works for you as it sure does for me.

thanks ergo14 that does work and you must have put some time into that workaround! But what an effort needed with such a big filesharing company. I also e-mailed them and they have just replied askng about ip address and any proxys.
lets hope it gets sorted sooner than later.

That's cool, I'm happy to see that this works for others also. You are right of course, it's a lot of f**king about.
For myself I go even further and using Url Snooper I grab the download Url from the pop-up file and transfer it to my download manager and then cancel the pop-up file. This is because occasionally the file download stalls but the download manager allows resume and is quicker.
What a hassle though.

I agree, lets hope this gets sorted soon.

Cheers, ergo14.

Further news. Just received this from Rapidshare,

'It seems that currently many BT customers cannot reach our website.

If BT does not deliberately block RapidShare.com, there might be a
problem
regarding the peering between BT and Level3.

In any case we will contact BT and try to solve the problem.


Best regards,

RapidShare AG - Support Team

RapidShare AG
Gewerbestrasse 6
CH - 6330 Cham'

Maybe some action at last.

Ergo I just got an identical e-mail from RS. Last time I had an issue they just blamed BT and said it was up to me to resolve so their offer to progress this is hopefully a step forwards.

ergoT4 wrote:

Did you try using the other servers?

Cogent?
Telia Sonera?
Global Crossing?
Teleglobe?

If the other 4 servers work OK, then RS is right when it says that maybe there is a trouble in the peering sync between BT and Level3. If your trouble persists also with the other 4 servers, then RS people are a gang of liars ... !!

andylo wrote:

Nice of you to try and assist, however, those of us with this problem do not reach the page allowing a choice of servers. We simply get a Tcp error or a blank browser. In other words we simply cannot connect to any Rapidshare server using normal Http protocol. There is no doubt at all that there is some problem between Rapidshare and BT which has increased in severity dramatically over the last few days. Without my workaround I would not have been able to download any Rapidshare file for the last 3 days.
Thanks anyway.

ergo14.

ergo14 wrote:

I'd like to add my thanks for this workaround too - my attempts to connect have met with exactly the same problem over the last week, but this works like a charm. I was beginning to wonder why I'd wasted my money on a premium account. Thank you sir.

Hey Folks,
Sorry, just ignore this post. The solution I posted here does not work!!
So I have removed it.

Cheers, ergo14.