[James Henry]

I would describe this not as an 'issue' but as 'working as intended'.

Complain to the ISP that forces you through the pointless proxies to be honest, they obviously aren't that transparent if the other side can see them.

The code to see real IP addresses is clearly already in place otherwise Rapidshare wouldn't be able to tell the two different IPs, real one and proxy.

I would imagine that the site is coded this way to avoid people playing games with proxies and download managers and whoring bandwidth. I might be wrong but that's the only thing that comes to mind.

Rapidshare have nearly always been excellent in my experience, very very fast indeed most of the time - 2MB/s or more.

It is amusing when people are calling a site that is used by tens of millions rubbish because their ISP implements its' network in a way which isn't entirely compatible. The rest of us not on ntl are fine tyvm, and enjoying this 'rubbish' site's 45Gbps of bandwidth and 360TB of storage. I'd suggest it's the ISP that's rubbish for not implementing caching properly, or implementing it at all even, not the site.