Apparently Rapidshare.com has blocked certain Indian IPs. Here is the message that I get when I try to download files from rapidshare.
Call my ISP? Like they’re gonna do something about it.
Since they wont allow you to access their site directly, here are a couple of tricks that you can use to fulfill your filesharing needs:
1. Use a proxy. Not any proxy will work for downloading files with rapidshare though. You’d best use a CGI Proxy. Just google for “CGI Proxy” and you’ll get what you want. Here are a couple of good ones that I like to use:
http://youhide.com
http://url1.in
http://nocheck.in
Enter your download link in the page and you’ll probably be able to download the file at full speed. Make sure you select the checkbox that says “allow scripts” or disbale the checkbox which says “disable scripts”.
2. Alternatively, you can dump rapidshare altogether. There are plenty of reliable free filehosts out there. My personal favorites are Mediafire and SendSpace.
There you have it. Thanks to Shypy, rapidshare banning your IP range doesn’t affect you anymore.
According to a recent survey, File Sharing and Peer to Peer networks take up more than 90% of the total bandwidth on the internet. This is not surprising given the fact that a web page is hardy more than 1 MegaByte, which you can downlad that much in less than 5 secs!
This is where File Sharing websites come into the picture. What if you want to share a certain document with your friends, but dont want to go about emailing everyone. In that case, you can just upload the file to a remote host. In this post, I intend to highlight some of the better remote hosting websites. Bear in mind that the best file hosting websites have a limit on the amount of data you can downlod per day - you need to purchase a premium account if you want to download more.
The best/fastest file hosting websites (paid)
The fastest file hosting websites allow you to download only a limited amount of data in a specific period of time. Moreover they require captcha verification and the free accounts do not support download accelerators or resume support. Here are the best among them
Free file hosting websites with download accelerator support
These websites are not only free, they also provide download accelerator and resume support! I recommend using them if you’re sharing large files with your friends.
A word of caution. Hosting sensetive/critical files on remote hosts may not the best thing to do. Anyone can freely download from there, and this may compromise your data. You can use rapidshare, which provides a delete-this-file link which allows you do delete the file from their servers after the transfer has been done.