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#69284 5-Oct-2010 21:21

First time in my life I actually gave money to RapidShare to allow me to download the Froyo ROM for the Galaxy S.

Guess what?

You still have to wait.
You still download at slow speeds.....

But it will all be better if you sign up for....drum roll.....Rapid Pro!

What a scam.

Bittorrent is so much better.....if people would learn to share instead of wanting something for nothing.

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#388486 5-Oct-2010 21:24

Hotfile is pretty good actually. Way better than rapidshare.

Do whatever you want to do man.

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#388491 5-Oct-2010 21:34

I use mediafire, no waiting. The only file sharing site I've given money too... well I've given TPB money indirectly - they sponsored a project which I donated to :)

But yes, bit torrent is awesome. Anonymous, and fast - pity most people leech. My torrent server has a share ratio limit of 1.6 and a time ratio of 2.0, once either of those conditions are met, it stops seeding and removes the torrent. Otherwise the server starts running out of space hehe.
Love my Ubuntu headless server :)

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#388527 5-Oct-2010 22:33

Rapidshare recently changed their pricing and policies (in part through threats of litigation i believe). Consequently they suck balls.

I have used or currently do use, Hotfile, Fileserve and Megaupload with much more success.

I moved from torrents after the first wave of isp throttling came into affect a few years ago and getting my linux iso's became a hateful exercise.

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#388557 6-Oct-2010 00:07

Disrespective: Rapidshare recently changed their pricing and policies (in part through threats of litigation i believe). Consequently they suck balls.

I have used or currently do use, Hotfile, Fileserve and Megaupload with much more success.

I moved from torrents after the first wave of isp throttling came into affect a few years ago and getting my linux iso's became a hateful exercise.

I had poor bittorrent performance until I bought a better router. Cheap routers get totally bogged by the number of connections. Slow processors, low RAM and software with memory leaks. My ancient DSE re-badged Connectix beat the crap out of any of them for going 6 months without a power cycle and being as fast on the last day as it was on the first. But to speed was 4mb...and my link can do 7mb.

Since then, I had cheapo DLink (3 of them), Linksys (useless 'toilet seat' thing...) and TPLink...and bittorrent was very poor at peak times on all of them.....and I thought the ISP was shaping it to death.

Then I paid twice as much for a Netcomm....and amazingly....I'm downloading linux ISOs at high speed at 8pm on a weeknight....every night.

*Amazingly* the BEST bittorrent client I have seen is AndTorrent on my phone. It is *relentless*. It grabs 15 or 20 peers....sucks REAL hard (500kbps).....and when they begin to fail it grabs 15-20 more...and just keeps on going. Grab, suck, drop, grab.... I've seen it download 350MB in under 20 minutes...in my shirt pocket.

For sheer grunt....it's King...and an odd one at that, being on my phone.

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#388582 6-Oct-2010 06:55

linuxluver - just wondering what modem do you have? I am on my third in a year (a TPLink), before that a Telecom Thompson, and before that another, still not 100% happy.

I have looked at commercial grade rack mounted stuff but the price jump is huge. Why doesn't someone make a top quality consumer grade modem, no wireless, I am sure there is a market for it.

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#388954 6-Oct-2010 21:32

ADSL modem that does half bridge + router that can be flashed with open source firmware (tomatousb, dd-wrt, open wrt) is the way.

Basically this
http://www.ben.geek.nz/2006/11/adsl-routing-solution-in-detail/

However that's several years old now so I'd go with a TP Link TD 8840 for the modem and Asus RT-N16 for the router

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#388960 6-Oct-2010 21:41

Linksys. cisco R&D without the price tag.

WRT54 is king.

That thing was awesome.

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#388969 6-Oct-2010 21:51

aim: Linksys. cisco R&D without the price tag.

WRT54 is king.

That thing was awesome.

Be careful here - there are a tonne of different hardware revisions of the old 54g with later ones having much less ram and completely different (and slower performance). You really need to install DD-WRT for decent performance and some of the later revisions are incapable of running it.

I've found the really cheap Belkin models keep up with my 10Mb connection fine - you can easily pull down 1MB/s+ on a decently seeded torrent

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#389249 7-Oct-2010 16:11

Yeah WRT54GL or WRT54-TM were the best models, however Asus WL-520GU has more cpu and flash. Also for wireless N and gigabit you want to be looking at something newer.

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#389255 7-Oct-2010 16:21

DSE XH9949 + Asus RT-N16 loaded with tomato = Awesome-0 combo

Do whatever you want to do man.

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#389290 7-Oct-2010 18:42

For those using downloading sites like rapidshare, mediashare, megaupload, hotfile etc etc I have found Jdownloader download manager with flashgot addon for firefox really useful. Basically you just copy the file sharing url and JDownloader automatically grabs anything that is from a file sharing site in the clipboard and will download it. You don't have to worry about waiting 30 secounds for the download link to appear or anything like that. If you install flashgot with jdownloader you can right click and download. I didn't really like download managers, but i think jdownloader seems quite good.

HTPC / Home automation (home assistant) enthusiast.

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#389334 7-Oct-2010 20:43

billgates: DSE XH9949

Discontinued model now.

Thesedays:

TP Link TD 8840
Dynalink RTA 1320E
Netcomm NB6Plus4

.. all pretty much using the same or similar chipest and firmware.

Also Draytek Vigor 120 (full pppoa to pppoe bridging) if you are willing to spend a bit more.

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#389355 7-Oct-2010 21:48

Only filesharing site I have paid for is Megaupload. Through my browser speeds are consistantly around 400kBps but using the Mega Manager (their version of a download manager) i could and would more often than not easily get 1000kBps and up to about 1400kBps. It is about $19 USD for 3 months access and well worth it.

Also in regards to the filesharing site like Hotfile, Rapidshare and Megaupload they all have advantages and disadvantages. I belong to a xbox forum that most people on would say MU is the best. A lot do also recommend using JDownloader as mentioned above personally i do not like JDownloader and opt for easier to use download managers. Megamanager is good but does not like it when your router resets or something and would result in either corupt downloads or requiring a restart (henceforth using more bandwidth.

Yeah of course you may be able to get similar speeds off a bittorrent client but your more likely to get caught out too if downloading copyrighted material which i would not recommend. As you do get caught and it can have some serious outcomes for the few that do get caught. Unless of course your one of these people that like the odds and like to take a gamble. As in probably less than a few hundred ever prosecuted against the millions plus files downloaded every day.

Of course in pointing out those odds I know of more than one person (as in friends not online friends either) that have received official copyright infrningement warnings for downloading of copyright material. So be warned people do actually get caught here in good old NZ too.

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#389369 7-Oct-2010 22:22

For higher grade home routing I would suggest getting a high quality Draytek Vigor 120 ADSL modem and building yourself a pfSense router. The hardware requirements for pfSense are tiny for small networks such as home (even runs on embedded hardware) and it is so much more powerful and feature filled than many consumer grade routers. Best thing is, if you have the parts lying around, setup is free ;)

I currently run this setup and uptime has been since I built it (several months now) and performance is rock solid.

Over time I have found that the number of connections needed for bittorrent are fairly small compared to what many users set in their client. I currently have my client configured for a maximum 400 connections globally and 90 peers per torrent (this is excessive) and all the stuff I leech comes down at maximum capacity (either it maxes out my connection or the seeder has a limited upstream).

What is a more important concern is your ISPs quality of international connectivity. You are guaranteed a much smoother experience if you pay for a premium plan with nice international connectivity (read: you will not experience a smooth bittorrent experience on a $60 p/m all-you-can-eat plan ;)

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#389398 8-Oct-2010 01:56

the problem with all these file sharing sites is there are far far too many of them (rapidshare, mediashare, megaupload, hotfile etc etc).

What is the point of paying for one when the next distro you might happen to hunt down is instead on a different site.... better to stick to bittorent, or usenet

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