rapidshare.com

RapidShare is basically a German One-click hosting site that operates from Switzerland and is financed by the subscriptions of paying users. Rapidshare.com is such a big site, it is ridiculous. The website is however free, but if you're a serious downloader you're going to eventually want to get a premium account. Rapidshare Ultimate 2007 is a free software to download files from the world's largest file-sharing network.

Rapidshare tracks your IP address and places download limitations on it if you are a free user. Some people say that surfing ends on the internet when that one message comes up "your ip has exceeded the limit please wait 300 minutes to download again".

Rapidshare isn't really a replacement for Bit Torrent, the two basically complement each other. Rapidshare is a free unlimited file sharing service. Premium account supports download managers and provide much faster downloads. It is said that Rapidshare is one of the biggest file sharing or hosting services on the web today. Of course please note that RapidShare will delete expired accounts after 45 days.

www.Rapidshare.com

Rapidshare still makes things extremely simple and easy at least from a download standpoint. It is great, its not that expensive, and still the fastest amongst the others who have come up. It is by far the most reliable site I've seen, but it has it's disadvanteges. Rapidshare has become lousy for ‘free' downloaders, you have to wait 1 hour to download another file.

Downloading from Rapidshare.com

But that's not all, its gets better; Rapidshare is extremely fast when it comes to downloads. You can even download e-books on pretty much anything you can think of. The user is supplied with a unique download URL, which locates the file and enables anyone with whom the uploader shares it to download the file.

The difference between the free and paid version of the website is visibly - much faster downloads, and you will soon realize that getting a premium account is mandatory. If you have premium access you just copy and paste the links into a program called Flashget and let it automatically download all the files. No user is allowed to search the server for content; all files have to be downloaded by following a given URL. There are a few Rapidshare Premium Link Generators where you can generate your premium download links.