Like I have said this is not a problem with BT. The people who you want to complain to are Rapidshare. I e-mailed them about the old site and I am still waiting for a reply over 5 months on.

You seem to be able to access the site using "https" (i.e. secure connection)

Unfortunately, doesn't seem to help with FlashGet (error: "Host name in the certificate is invalid or does not match").

Not sure if its related by there is some legal action against rapidshare.de and rapidshare.com. Maybe they are limiting their own service or have taken it down completely

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/8460.cfm
and
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11089

Interesting... First I knew of this as well!

bypassing with https works ,normal download speeds and solid overall. Thanks for the tip.

I have Premium account and using https works ok as does using 'tor' linked to firefox

BUT

I cant upload using the Rapiduploader software

I left this on in background with a few small files...they were eventually uploaded overnight. For the last 3 days I have had message 'trying to login' so obvously its been blocked last 3 days

I notices when I was able to use Rapiduploader that it cut my download speed (download from another website) to a crawl..speed came back up as soon as the upload was finished.

Suppose that RS allowed 'my' ip address access then that would only apply until someone unplugs the router (to use the vacuum!!) and then I get another ip address when I get connected again?

Edited by deleted (Wed 31-Jan-07 12:53:43)

I finally got a response from Rapidshare support. They say it's not their problem. They claim that there is "a bandwith problem between some internet providers and our provider (Level 3)". I have pointed out that ping and traceroute shows no packet loss or delay and that https works normally, and yet I am still unable to access http://rapidshare.com with a web browser and a Premium Account. I await their response.

Doing a few traceroutes from around the world they use level 3 everywhere. In that case why can you access it if like you say you go via SSL or a proxy.

I smell a lot of manure coming from them again.

All you have to do is change http to https and it will work. The problem is Rapidshare and not BT.
Dont ask me why even Rapidshare dont seem to know or care.