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neoapple
07-09-2008, 18:35
Are virgin media limiting speed to rapidshare?
As i can only seem to download at around a max of 120-200 KB/s sometimes only around 50KB/s from rapidshare and i have a prem account and rapidshare say they aint limiting anything.
i have 20mb internet, no firewalls, and it's just not this pc as it does it on all of them
I can download fast from other websites so its not a connection issue

DocDutch
07-09-2008, 18:40
whats the speed of your download if you get anything from say www.microsoft.com or something else fast?

Jelly
07-09-2008, 18:51
Just tested using DownThemAll, and I maxed out my 4mb connection. No problems in Birmingham.

neoapple
07-09-2008, 19:18
I can download from ms at 1.2MB/s

Just reset my router to factory defaults incase it was messing up but still no luck and also it's slow on all pc's in my network (downloading from rapidshare)

xspeedyx
07-09-2008, 23:27
Might be something to do with VM's routing I know VM don't throttle http traffic as MS site would be slow as well using the same port 80,

Welshchris
08-09-2008, 05:35
ive been asking this question for weeks myself.

I get a max of around 500k downloading from Rapidshare on my VM connection yet if i use my friends AOL connection i get over 700k.

If i download from Microsoft or Nvidia etc i can get the full 2.2mb/s

JediMaster
08-09-2008, 12:06
I get 440+ on my 4MB VM line. I use Flashget & a Premium RS account. No problems here. (unless I ht the limit lol).

zer0
08-09-2008, 21:45
the routing to the GlobalCrossing US server has been terrible for a while now make sure you not using that one

LaineY
09-09-2008, 11:56
the routing to the GlobalCrossing US server has been terrible for a while now make sure you not using that one

I believe that is why some You Tube Streams struggle

Qu3
10-09-2008, 16:29
I max out my 20 meg connection.
What you downloading with? firefox? try using a downloader, I use jdownloader

D.Casey
10-09-2008, 18:15
At 2am in the morning (when my 20mb line actually works) I only get around 400KB/s on rapidshare premium acc aswell, if im really lucky i get 550-600.
I test quite a few of the rs mirrors & they all seem the same roughly.
Yet megaupload/microsoft downloads are way above that when I try them at the same time.

I use the rs download manager.

carl2k2
12-09-2008, 18:18
Are virgin media limiting speed to rapidshare?
As i can only seem to download at around a max of 120-200 KB/s sometimes only around 50KB/s from rapidshare and i have a prem account and rapidshare say they aint limiting anything.
i have 20mb internet, no firewalls, and it's just not this pc as it does it on all of them
I can download fast from other websites so its not a connection issue

its rapidshare, because I download from them a lot with my premium, I have 10mb, the max speed I get from microsoft is 1.2mb/s, from rapidshare I get 700kb/.s but sometimes it goes down to 200kb/s, so you just do 5 links each downloading at 200kb/s, so its not really that bad but I would say its something to do with rapidshare

soicky
12-09-2008, 18:23
yh, it's to do with RS. Speed depends on what server of theirs your downloading from. But just leave a few files on download and it should be good.

carl2k2
12-09-2008, 18:25
Suppose if rapidshare are limiting your premium, I have a spare account you could test to see if download speed changes :)