Rapidshare.com

Well what do you know ,first it was P2P throttling ,now it seems BT are also blocking off rapidshare.com from certain times ,which appears to be from about 6PM to about 10PM ,I can ping the website ,but it simply does not load. I assume this is to do with BT ,since this isnt the first time this is happening to me ,as I am speaking its blocked for me . Can anyone advise on this issue?

Yeah, I noticed this earlier today as well. Tried via a proxy and it loaded straight away.

You will find the person who is blocking you is rapidshare themselves. They done it with rapidshare.de but only with downloads they would always fail. But it seems that rapidshare do it now with their .com venture.

I know it seems strange but they do it to several other large ISP's around the world. They simple reason is bandwidth consumption. They cannot afford to have the larger ISP's downloading from them as it would costs so much. But it does seem strange that the website is completely blocked. Just download outside of these times is what I can suggest just now. But I fear it wont be long before you have to have a premium account to download.

Well ,that will most likely explain this ,but they should really make a notice of that.

Who should make a notice of that?

I have a premium account with r,share.com I am not a heavy down loader by any means
but I am blocked tonight and also yesterday at the same time, just checked 9.56pm an still no go???

Since you pay e-mail them and ask. They will tell you about a transparent proxy server. Any site you check to see if you are going through a transparent proxy and from speaking to BT not just their tech help but people within BT who are very knowledgeable about their network know nothing of a transparent proxy. They trailed one for a month but people complained so much they scrapped it. that was back in 2003.

was unblocked at 12:20AM ,still they are taking a mick tbh.

I've got a Rapidshare Premium Account and haven't been able to connect to rapidshare.com for the past 24 hours. I've emailed Rapidshare support and they're not replying. According to their website, problems with transparent proxies will go away when you pay for a Premium Account. Clearly this is rubbish. Any other subscribers who've managed to get a reply from RS?

I've also had the same problem over recent days (I have a Premium account)

Fri-26-Jan @ 12:50 (lunchtime) - I can ping "www.rapidshare.com", but trying to access the URL in a browser times out.

(the older site "www.rapidshare.de" is ok)

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.