[mutley249]

After seeing threads being flooded with bitching about rapidshare, please use the following.

If you are having problems with rapidshare try this:-

just disconnect and reconnect your modem, you will get assigned a new ip address and voila instant access no waiting. Only works if you have a dynamic IP given to u by the broadband provider when you connect. I have a netgear router, all i do is "log off" and log back on (20 secs) and im given a new ip, repeat until your hearts content!

Request a new IP address from your ISP server.

Here's how to do it in windows:
1. Click Start
2. Click run
3. In the run box type cmd.exe and click OK
4. When the command prompt opens type the following. ENTER after each new line.
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
exit

5. Erase your cookies in whatever browser you are using.
6. Try the rapidshare download again.

Frequently you will be assigned a new IP address when this happens. Sometime you will, sometimes you will not. If you are on a fixed IP address, this method will not work. To be honest, I do not know how to do this in linux/unix/etc. If this works for you, you may want to save the above commands into a batch file, and just run it when you need it.

Thanks to Nuggs for this.

Feel free to bitch and moan some more, but in here, not on other threads.

[DM]

OR become a premium user. lol.

[drfoxx]

Only works on some types of connections.

I don't know why people use rapidshare? There are better, faster, free-er sites available.

Each to their own though :) No doubt some of this info will be useful for some users

[ceejay]

Well i posted um my premium on this site for the VIP to use. so that helped up until someone got greedy and decided to change the pass ( no idea if it was anyone here or i got phised) . not pointing any fingers.

[dooble883]

Happy using Rapidshare, after a few months of renewing constantly plumped for a years worth.....Find Megaupload is a decent free one, dont mind grabbing files from there, but some others are really stringent as to how much you can grab an hour, so tend to avoid video's from there if i can