Is rapidshare throttled like p2p/Newsgroups in peak times?

[*sloman*]

As the title says, Is rapidshare throttled like p2p/Newsgroups in peak times? (17:00-00:00)

Since switching to 100 i max out at 1-3MB/s between 17:00-00:00 but when i was on 50MB (only last week) i was never throttled. i didn't know if was time to switch to grab my "linux iso's hahahaha"

[Ignitionnet]

While it should be as far as I know it isn't.

[*sloman*]

found the answer: http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Up-to-100Mb-broadband/why-is-my-100mb-so-bad/td-p/586051/page/2# Message 14 page 2

No its not, hmmm might be time to switch

[iTekweni]

I think it is as I was downloading from RS and it suddenly stopped and I can't even access their website but on my mobile connecting via my phone's data connection I connect no problems the moment I retry with my phone on wireless with on virgin then no connection ....

[Sirius]

Working fine for me here in Warrington

[kwikbreaks]

Maybe there was some kiddy fiddling material found somewhere on RS and their traffic got routed through VM's IWF filter/proxy.

With some ISPs that can block access completely - when I was with UKOnline their forum section on TBB was full of complaints on that topic. Strangely UKO and Sky both used the same network but I've not heard of Sky customers encountering a complete block (or VM come to that).

[cook1984]

You can mitigate the throttling by using more connections. Unfortunately free RapidShare users only get one, but with newsgroups I find that if I use 16+ connections (depending on load, sometimes I need 24) I can still max the connection out.

Do RapidShare offer HTTPS access? I find with newsgroups if I use the HTTPS port and an encrypted connection VM's throttling is less effective.

[*sloman*]

it was astraweb, just switched to giganews and getting 10.9-12.3 MB/s sweeeet!

[Sleeper919]

It shouldn't be. At least it shouldn't come under the P2P bracket. Downloading from rapidshare and other file hosting sites is a direct download.

[davidthornton]

I'm not getting great upload speeds to RapidShare Pro on 100Mbit. Speedtest.net informs me I can get almost 9Mbit upload. However both DUMeter and RapidShare Manager state ~1.1Mbit upload. Is this a limitation of RapidShare in general?

I also just tried uploading a ~300Mb file to the "vStuff" storage area using FireFox, whilst the RapidShare Pro upload was occuring, but DUMeter doesn't increase much beyond ~1.3Mbit upload.

[Nopanic]

I think it is as I was downloading from RS and it suddenly stopped and I can't even access their website but on my mobile connecting via my phone's data connection I connect no problems the moment I retry with my phone on wireless with on virgin then no connection ....

It wouldn't get blocked even if it was managed.