[cottonvibes]

Originally Posted by John Aiton

Can you use a free account?

yeah of course
i hate paying money

it downloads 1 file at a time, so you don't break the rapidshare rules.
it just does it all automatically, so when its a 35part file, you don't have to manually click 35 links and wait 50 seconds for each one.
you can just copy all the links to the program, and then download over night.
since the average speed i get is over 100kb/sec, its much faster than torrents.

Originally Posted by V1ncent

I don't agree. I get more dl speed on torrents than rapidshare (maybe because of the connection speed, but more dl speed nonetheless :P).
The advantage I find in Rapidshare is that, it just not depends on seeders and peers.

Rapidshare:
slowest speed: ~60kb/sec
average speed: ~125kb/sec
max speed: ~230kb/sec

Torrents:
slowest speed: ~0kb/sec (no peers, happens alot)
average speed: ~20kb/sec
max speed: ~350kb/sec (max on my gay connection)


torrents have the potential to be faster, but theres never enough seeders.
using rapidshare with an automatic downloader is awesome.
i just started doing it a few days ago, and i'm able to get alot of stuff that would have taken me weeks to get by torrents.

with torrents, i find it hard to get over 60kb/sec speed.
thats the slowest rapidshare goes for me.

Originally Posted by Hard core Rikki

Rapidshare actually seemed to have improved, but torrents still beat that. As long as enough seeds/peers are there, why object?

because theres never enough seeders for those rare-files.
direct download is so much better than torrents because you get a more constant download speed.

i rather always download something at 100kb/sec, then download 90% of files at 15kb/sec and 10% at 350kb/sec... which is the case with torrents.


oh i forgot to mention:
by not using torrents, you don't have to seed. And therefore you don't use up your upload bandwidth.
whenever i seed something over 7kb/sec, my internet runs slow as hell.

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