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)