The main limitations of free users are the hourly limits of rapidshare download files and the time taken to countdown before the download gets ready. Also there are other factors like simultaneous download for free users is a nightmare.

Here we shall try to implement a possible way that can be helpful for downloading simultaneous files as a free user. This way dealt here is related with changing the proxy of user which is not guaranteed to work in all cases, but in few cases it will work leading to downloading multiple rapidshare files for the user. If you have 100 working IPs, you can download 100 files simultaneously

Proxy connection is a type of internet connection where you will gain access to the entire internet through the help of another server. There will be one proxy server which serves all your requests to related servers and serves their responses to your computer browser.

How it works?

If you download one rapidshare file on your computer with your original internet connection – your original IP will be logged into rapidshare servers and hence you will not be able to access another file to download. In this case, it is impossible to download simultaneous files from RS. If you make use of original IP to download one file and some proxy IP for another file, you are naturally be granted with permission to download files as the RS system sees the requests from different IPs. Don’t forget to clear the cookies before you attempt for second download

How to change proxy for downloading simultaneous rapidshare files?

There are different ways – lets talk separately -

Anonymizers:

These are the kind of services where you can see a google like text box where you enter the url to be browsed. The server gains your request and the server behind the anonymizer service transfers your request to concerned server and responds you by the response sent back from requested server. In turn to the service offered, they are supported by ads. Here there are no techie stuff related with them, but just enter the url and get the rapidshare file.

While using these services, be sure that you enable the javascript – because javascript is a requirement for downloading rapidshare files. But with these services, you cannot use the rapidshare javascript hack to cut down countdown timer delay.

Firefox Addon:

Even this is a quite easy possible for every user without any techie knowledge requirement. You will find different firefox addons which help you browse the web through proxy. The mode of operation with these addons is really an easy process because of its simplicity of switching proxy.

One such firefox addon is Phzilla and a mouse click can result you to browse with proxy.

Firefox – Manual way of changing proxy

First, google for a working, fast proxy server list. You will find a list of free proxy servers which you can use to download files without rapidshare premium account. So, here you got a good list of working proxy list. Now, its time to configure firefox to use proxy server instead of your normal internet connection.

In firefox, open Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Connection > Settings. Check the radio button – Manual proxy configuration.

You will now be asked to enter the proxy server you wish to use. Enter the proxy server which you found from Google.

Firefox proxy options

Proxy setting to download rapidshare files

Note 1: While you use the method of configuring proxy server of firefox manually, remember that no proxy server works for life time. Every time you use a proxy server, do search for working ones. Once a proxy server gets overloaded, it will be shut down of service and hence search manually for working one at the time of configuring.

Note 2: With this way of bypassing rapidshare limits, you can also use the rapidshare countdown javascript hack in the normal way.

Note 3: Always select a proxy server which is either Anonymous or High Anonymous – Transparent proxy servers are not expected to perform well because they show up your original IP

Disadvantages of using proxy to download rapidhsare files

1. The main disadvantage is there are many people who read this article (or think in the same way) – so, if someone else is downloading rapidshare file from the same proxy server, you will not be able to download a file from rapidshare.

2. Speed with proxy server is not always guaranteed.

3. If proxy server shuts down while you are downloading a bulky file, you will have to restart the entire process again and re-download what you have downloaded before increasing your bandwidth usage especially if you are using a limited internet connection.

Download Rapidshare Files

Yes, even Linux users can try the disconnection and reconnection methods. To use these methods, you will disconnect the internet connection and reconnect. In this case, you will get a new IP for your system if your ISP provides you with dynamic IP. The other ways of disconnection and reconnection is by disabling LAN and enabling it – if you use a always on connection. Also you can try a hard restart of modem which in many cases will get you new IP with which you can bypass rapidshare download limit for free users.

Rapidshare can be made to allow more downloads by changing IP, this is a proved and tested method. Linux users can also try these commands to get a new IP assigned in seconds.

Download rapidshare files on linux

The commands to use on Linux are:

restart nscd daemon

sudo ifconfig en0 down

sudo ifconfig en0 down;sudo ifconfig en0 up

Using these commands one after the other will reset your IP to a new one and hence you are ready to download a new rapidshare file.

Even if these methods don’t work for you – you are mostly using a static IP. In this case, its wise for you to try with rapidshare hack with proxy.

May be you too have the same experience, so here I am presenting with you a rapidshare download manager which is a real, spyware-malware free, free of cost software which is of great use if you are a rapidshare premium account user. Yes, I am right in saying rapidshare premium account user. This tool is for Rapidshare Premium Account users and not free users or owners of collector zone.

The software referred here is RSDownloader.

If you want to download and try the software to download many rapidshare hosted files, you can download the software from here.

Lets see the usage of the tool.

Download the software file from location linked above. You may choose any of the server based on your location. No problem if you choose another server.

Once the download is complete, install the RSDownloader in order to start download rapidshare files.

Open the software, you will now need to enter the rapidshare premium login details. If you don’t have a premium account, it is not possible to use this software.

Login rapidshare premium account details

Once, login into the account will enable you to add download links.

Left click on the Add and Check Links on the left sidebar.

Add download links of all files you want to download. You can add any number of links as you wish.

Adding download links to RS downloader

Once you add all your links, you will be able to check links if all them are live and none of them return “File not found”.

As you check the existence of all files, you can start downloading the rapidshare hosted files.

Apart from normal download feature, this software has much better feature of scheduling the download time. You can set up the schedule to download. Also, they provide facility to save/load queue of rapid share download files. This is better if you use computer in an intermittent basis or use multiple computers like home, office, college etc.

You also have setting to turn off computer automatically when all rapidshare downloads are finished. This is good that you can download files during night without requiring the computer to stay on the whole night.

If you look deep into the settings of rapidshare download manager software, they have even proxy setting for those who use proxy connections to connect internet. Many theme support are provided.

The developers also claim that it has an auto un-rar feature – very nice to have such feature as the downloads are automatically extracted from archive.

Also, a plugin support has been added. Though at right today, we don’t have any plugins, but once plugins are released, rapidshare premium users will enjoy much more features without requiring the software upgrade