I am about to purchase a Rapidshare premium account. I was just wondering if it will be worth it, when one considers the limited bandwidth speed our local ISPs provide.

Is there any Premium user in the house? Please share your experience.

Most obvious difference is the fact that you can use a download accelerator. Meaning you get more threads feeding your download. Have you ever experienced downloading using the free service only for it to get to say, 90%, and then you link times out? Well, with a premium account, you simply can pause and resume anytime. No timeouts when you use a download accelerator only supported on a premium account.

Plus, you get to download multiple files simultaneously. And oh yes, with a premium account, rapidshare pumps more bandwidth your way than on the free service.

Enough said. . . rapidshare ain't paying me no $$$ for marketing them.!!

Cheers!

Yea I'm a premium user and noff said by Maleeq. i encourage u to purchase a premium account if files u download are split into 10-20 parts. cuz as a free user, u have to wait for about 30mins before u can download another part. i use to be a major free user at one time and i learned a few tricks. u can try it out urself. If u allow a download to exceed 30mins, just wait till its about 95% complete, then go ahead and initiate the second one, keep doing this till u have downloaded all the parts. but its an awful lot of time wen downloading many file parts.

so how do u slow down the download? well if u can get flashget or any of ur favorite download accelerators to integrate with ur browser and initialize downloads, u can limit the bandwidth it uses. but if its a dailup connection ur using then u don't have to go through this cuz dailups a slow.

What kind of a downloader are u anyway? if ur a game freak, a movie freak, applications freak, , Premium account is for U!!
but if ur into books, u can settle for a free account.

i clock 300 kb/s on premium
a free user will average 15kb/s

premiums are pretty cheap now, and more nigerians will own accounts if there were more modes of payment.

Pls how can i get a rapidshare premium account and how long will it last for me i reall need one.