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Rapidshare throttled!!

A 3rd party DSL isn't likely to be any benefit anyway ...

reply to ultrasroma
I'm going to ask you how you came to the conclusion that Rapidshare is being throttled?

I mean, if it were, you'd be capped at 30 KBps from 4:30 pm to 2 am, not 6 pm.
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Disclaimer: If I express an opinion, it is my own opinion, not that of Bell or its related companies.

What happens actually is that the download speed abruptly decrease even to the point of sometimes stopping. However around 6 PM I experienced a significant decrease (170k to 6k, unexplainable indeed.
Now, speed is okay even though it is far from perfect. The main problem about the throttling is that there is not a clear pattern. Sometimes even at night I could be fully throttled for half an hour then it resumes to normal speed for 10 minutes then throttling for another 15 and so forth.

This unpredictable pattern is extremely annoying. Bell told us that throttling was needed in peak hours. However Bell continue to throttle 24/7 even though the throttling is less severe at night than during the evening, nonetheless it exists. The "peak hours" excuse is indeed poor or at least does not tell the whole truth.

reply to ultrasroma
It must be something on your end as I have rapidshare premium and have always downloaded and uploaded at full line speed

reply to ultrasroma
Since Rapidshare changed their gui, it went hand-in-hand with their free user download throttling.

Prior to this change (I guestimate 3 months ago), downloads were at your full throughput capacity. Now, however, all free access downloads are throttled to ~50kb/s. They probably use Ellacoya to do this.

Hopefully rapidshare will die out for another unthrottled service.

reply to ultrasroma
I have also noticed this, i use the free download option on RS, eventhough its slow, its still usable until today where I was getting less than 10k/sec...my download never finished as it dropped off and died... Dunno why Bell would cap RS, they have 100MB size limits per file anyways.

reply to ultrasroma
Yes confirmed. It started today. Rapidshare usually at 60k/s at peak times now at 10k/s around 8pm.

magically after 2Am, it is back to 60k/s.

So bell starting to expand the throttle to other protocol than p2p now. Slippery slope anyone ?

I guess that is their definition of a bettER customer experience.

How about ER for Bell-hatER ? because that is what a lot of people are becoming fast.

Dont worry my bell-hatER friends: this company will self-destruct itself until it sees reason or files for bankruptcy.
The MBA geniuses and marketing gurus left who have never touched a server in their life or downloaded anything bigger than 100Mb will finish the job started by the other idiots who got unloaded ... I guess that is cause for celebration.

reply to ultrasroma
If you guys hadn't noticed, Rapidshare changed their policies with regards to their free access.

In return for getting rid of captchas, they limited free downloads to 50-60KB/s. So no, it's not a result of throttling.

If you're a premium user and it's still slow, it's more likely Rapidshare is having problems on their own end. That's why they've also limited premium users to 5GB of bandwidth a day recently to combat a huge influx in new users.

Keep reading and take a look at qweloo's reply.

reply to ultrasroma
yup , just got teksavvy and guess what , i noticed something is wrong with downloads from rapidshare 10k speeds , i was like what the ... i just had rogers and it was doing 300k/sec

so i connected the rogers and it still does 300k/sec on the same file

lol
so i called teksavvy and so far .. they seem to try to ignore the issue.. saying my line is set low .. they need to pick it up.

anyway , i was looking and found this forum .. too bad i really liked teksavvy .. but i guess i have to stick with the India support from rogers

dam the CRTC sucks we got no competition in this place
grrr

So get a $60 linksys wrt54gl, enable mlppp and see if its still 10k/sec.

Or if you're using windows, simply create a pppoe connection, enable mlppp checkbox and off you go.

dont concede this quickly.
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GO LEAFS GO!

I thought you guys said http wasn't throttled!? This is a download using port80 http!

Here »[Throttle] Does Bell throttle HTTP traffic as well?

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reply to HiVolt

Only providers that support MLPPP. Which Bell isn't one of, of course...
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Cheers!

reply to ultrasroma
I've been having all sorts of problems with rapidshare for months now and as far as I can tell, it's rapidshare that is the problem.
Trying to upload or download anything at anytime is a crap shoot and a big pain in the ass now.

No problems with other hosts. Mediafire, Netload, Megaupload all work fine. Good uploads speeds and double or triple the download speeds.
Downloading right now from a place called 2Shared at over 500kB/sec on my 5MB line. Suck it rapidshare.

I switched to megaupload.