vm & Rapidshare

neoapple · 07-09-2008, 19:35

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, 19:40

whats the speed of your download if you get anything from say www.microsoft.com or something else fast?

Jelly · 07-09-2008, 19:51

Just tested using DownThemAll, and I maxed out my 4mb connection. No problems in Birmingham.

neoapple · 07-09-2008, 20:18

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)

08-09-2008, 00:27

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, 06:35

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, 13:06

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, 22:45

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, 12:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by zer0

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, 17:29

I max out my 20 meg connection.
What you downloading with? firefox? try using a downloader, I use jdownloader

D.Casey · 10-09-2008, 19:15

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, 19:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by neoapple

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, 19:23

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, 19:25

Suppose if rapidshare are limiting your premium, I have a spare account you could test to see if download speed changes