5 Reason why Rapidshare is better than Torrents.
January 14th, 2009 | by admin |
Torrents are being used by millions of peoples nowadays because we can find almost any file we want lots of pirated softwares are also available on torrent but there are reason due to which i always avoid torrent.I prefer rapidshare rather than torrent as rapidshare also has got billions of files with it petabyte of hard drives storage.
The reasons are given below.
1) Requires Client
Torrents are downloaded by downloading a single file with .torrent extension which has the size of about some KBs after downloading that file we can open that file in any P2P client to download actual contents of torrent and this is the one reason that i avoid torrent because for this we have to install additional software which takes some resources and some additional efforts for beginners.
In rapidshare we don’t have to install any additional software it just requires a browser with javascript enabled which most of the new browsers have.
2) Spyware & Trojans
Spyware is another very important reason due to which lots of peoples including me are avoiding torrents some files we download have spyware or trojans even some P2P clients also have spyware and trojans so always use a well known P2P Software.Check out 20 P2P file sharing softwares
We cannot deny the fact that the files downloaded from rapidshare also has spyware and trojans sometimes but the probability of spyware and trojan is very low as compare to torrents.
3) Hosted on User’s Computers
Torrents are being hosted by home or office user by using a P2P software from his/her computer so the reliability and speed of torrents depends on bandwidth and processing power of the computer from which the file is shared.
In rapidshare files are hosted on powerful servers of rapidshare with petabyte of storage and gigabytes of bandwidht so we always get maximum speed of downloading.
4) Slow Speed
The main concern of most of the users is that the speed of torrents is much slower.While downloading some files from torrent i noticed the speed 1 – 5 KBps which is really slow for my 1Mbps link.One possible reason of slow speed of torrent is mentioned in point # 3.
Downloading speed is alway best at rapidshare most of the time when i download files from rapidshare while being a free user is about 110 KBps and if you are a premium user than you can enjoy more cool features like maximum speed,resuming,multiple downloads and much more.
5) Minimum Life
Life of torrents is very minimum as i mentioned in Point # 3 that torrents are hosted on user’s computers rather than dedicated servers so the life is also minimum suppose if users shuts its computer down the file will be unavailable or the internet of the user gets disconnected than file will also unavailable and if after sharing files user realizes that it is taking too much bandwidth than user might disconnect the sharing.
At rapidshare if files are shared by a free user then they will be in rapidshare’s server for 30 day without any downloads and if they files are uploaded by premium user than files will never be deleted until n unless user deletes it.
In rapidshare you must have noticed one problem that it has some restrictions of downloading for free users but i think you should get a rapidshare premium account as it will only cost about $10 a month by giving $10 a month you can find almost everything on rapidshare.Checkout my post How to search files on rapidshare using google search
Reasons provided in this post are completely based on facts experienced by me.It is possible that some of the users haven’t experienced them and torrents work good for them so please share your experience with torrents and rapidshare in comments.
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18 Responses to “5 Reason why Rapidshare is better than Torrents.”
By rapidshare for life on Feb 11, 2009 | Reply
buy a premium account its so worth it
By Hazinna on Mar 14, 2009 | Reply
why pay $10 if you can get it free?
By admin on Mar 15, 2009 | Reply
Because by paying $10 you will get tons of cool features at rapidshare like resume support,high speed of downloads and much more.
By Anonymous on May 27, 2009 | Reply
You should pay attention to your punctuation and phrase length
The first paragraph of “Minimum Life” is way too long, it confuses and overloads the reader with too much information at once…
Other than that, good article
By admin on May 27, 2009 | Reply
@Anonymous
Thanks for the advice.
By Janac Meenachisundaram on Jun 20, 2009 | Reply
every single one of these points can be related back to rapidshare, given that your using (e)lephant
By Jake on Jan 13, 2010 | Reply
This is probably true IF you’re willing to pay the $10/mo. Keep in mind that not everybody has the ability to pay… many downloaders are 13 year-olds… If you don’t pay, torrents are still way better because in my experience you can often get similar speeds (~100kbps), but with torrents you get simultaneous downloads and don’t have to wait after each download. For most downloaded items (games, software, music, movies etc) there are also enough seeders/leechers to download from comfortably.
Sure, there are hacks around the wait time in-between, but even trying to change your IP each time doesn’t work for a lot of people (many ISPs don’t send you a new IP address after a reconnection). And even if it DOES work, it is such a CRAPPY HACK! C’mon, changing your IP address!? Everybody connected to your router will get disconnected… SSH connections you have will get broken… and countless other inconveniences… all this just to download a file? Pretty sad.
You also mentioned that torrents require a Client. Well, with large rapidshare files like games requiring 10-20 .rar pieces to download, you’d want to get something like JDownloader or elephant anyways.
Seriously, I don’t understand why the world seems to be shifting to rs. Is everybody paying or what!?
By DIABLO on Jan 31, 2010 | Reply
I agree to disagree with every single notion of the OP.
1) Requires Client : Well; if you were really familiar with torrent clients; you will notice that most of them eat up similar amount of resource, in comparison to a download accelerator. You are saying that may it be free/premium (especially), RS user will use the default download client ?! HA !
2) Spyware & Trojans : RS is one of the BIGGEST breeding ground of malicious software. In torrents; we are provided with ‘comment’ option; which will warn the later users of harmful software, if any. I can’t believe you mentioned RS is immune to malicious files !
3) Hosted on User’s Computers & 4) Slow Speed : Consider the free RS account. It never is worth comparing a premium service with a free one. RS even blocks users during peak hour; even from triggering a download ! I wonder how you got the ‘admin’ label with such remarks !!
5) Minimum Life : ROFL ! You sure are a newbie, mate ! I’ve downloaded unpopular torrents with no seeders @ rates of 20kBps. I’m getting speeds of 220-230kBps regularly with my 2Mbps line with torrents; whereas RS (free) D/L rates are all over the place; and it NEVER goes above 170kBps, and even that, once in a blue moon.
I’ve nothing against your idea of promoting RS premium account; but when you try to bash something as popular as torrents; come up with some solid notion
By tomacer on Jun 9, 2010 | Reply
i honestly think rapid share is very nice torrents are good for getting all the new releases out quickly u can get easily get 200kbps speeds from a good torrent.
were as a free user of the rapid share can browse archives and really dope movies etc. with a steady rate.
in this case i got a movie i couldnt even buy. it was so old but the rapid shares had it while a torrent of the same movies will take . 3 weeks to get . in closing i really love the free user ability on rapid share . the archive is beautiful
By aaron on Feb 7, 2011 | Reply
This is probably true before they changed to RapidPro, with any other sharing websites, you pay for a month, and the traffic was so high you basically can consider it virtually unlimited. Now with the introduction of RapidPro, you essentially pay for your downloads per few gb, it’s completely rubbhish. Go with Megaupload, Hotfile, Filesonic etc, Rapidshare has decided to rip everyone off now that it’s popular enough.
To further nudge people to pay for their new system, they have also made sure that some of their files to be undownloadable to free users, even if they are under 100mb. Instead of asking you to sign up, they will tell you that there is a temporary error and you need to get an account to overcome it.
Basically, file sharing websites are definitely better than torrent, torrent is a thing of the past, you’re downloading movies and softwares illegally, so for a few dollars a month, it’s really not very much considering the speed and availability, but just stay away from rapidshare.
p.s who gets 100 kbps anymore…? my average with say… hotfile or filesonic is atleast 600kbps…. and easily over 1mb on some days.
By Simer on Feb 12, 2011 | Reply
Torrents are way better than Rapidshare.you just have to find a torrent which have high seeds.Its free n i get much more speed then RS.also there is just single click download for torrents but on RS we download big files in parts.
torrents have no size limit but rs have.
if u r downloading a torrent which dont have seeders then its ur fault.
Go back n try once again a better torrent.Piratebay is the best option now.
You will have trusted uploaders n user comments there much much better than rapidshare n u can resume it after starting ur computer automatically
By John on Feb 16, 2011 | Reply
5 reasons why what you are saying is wrong:
1) Ever tried downloading a splitted movie without a client via rapid share? Apparently, not. RS also needs a client.
2) I can put a virus or trojan in a rar, upload it to RS and send you the link even more easily than sending it through a torrent. Plus if a file is fake, chances are that it is not gonna have any seeders after a while.
3) So here you are comparing RS’s hosting services with a single peer. It is like comparing apples with oranges. Try comparing RS with the whole swarm of seeders and see who wins both in terms of speed and resources.
4) Same as 3
5)I wont even bother to reply to this one…
By omkar on Feb 17, 2011 | Reply
rapidshare sucks.becuz we can’t resume download in it,speed is very slow and waiting time for free users.it just sucks.
By Joseph on Mar 30, 2011 | Reply
Okay. This is an old post, but for the sake of anyone who just so happens to find it again, I’d like to comment on it.
1. Yes, it does require a client, but if you’re bothering with searching and downloading what’s most likely pirated software, I’d like to think you actually know how to install a damn program. Either way, if you’re really that clueless, there’s always the one-file, right-in-the-middle-of-your-face easy-to-use uTorrent. Really, there’s no excuse there. Not even if you’re blonde.
Plus, considering any serious downloading nowadays on Rapidshare is excruciating if you do not make use of premium link generator websites aplenty, particularly with multi-part archives, it’s actually a lot easier to just use a torrent program.
2. I guess that is the one thing people might find more on torrent downloads than on file-sharing websites – malware and the like. However, if you have at least half of your brain in working condition, you would take the time to read any available comments in the torrent website to check if anyone complained of viruses (and, likewise, if a number of people reprimanded said complainers over false alarms).
Even if you do download files containing malware, if you stick to running what you know you should be running and don’t go poke on unknown files, your computer probably isn’t going to suffer. It’s your own damn fault if you go and double-click on every single file you see.
3. The host computer hardly matters since seeders (other people uploading files after downloading fully) are what really matter here and provide for speed. Also, you won’t get maximum speed with Rapidshare or any other file-sharing website for that matter – unless you pay for it, of course. In my experience downloading games and films and whatnot, I generally hit maximum speed every time and, even if not, it’s enough to finish a large download in an hour or two at most.
Go and download on Rapidshare, with all the waiting time and slow speed. I’m sure it’ll be a day before you see the light of what you’re trying to download, especially if it’s multipart.
4. Read above. Oh, and sure, premium membership gives you a whole lot of bonuses. Well, guess what – torrents are free and give you all the bonuses they possibly can. How’s that for effective marketing?
5. There’s always a problem with older torrents, yes, but most of the times there will be enough seeders to finish it in a reasonable period of time. Most file-sharing websites delete files after some time, and let’s not forget copyright infringement deletion. It’s fairly easy for you to find countless file links for Rapidshare and whatnot that are broken because they have since been deleted for being pirated. Excluding sissy torrent websites like Mininova, such an event will not happen.
I realise that this post is old and, as thus, many things have changed. However, I still wrote this, fearing for the well-being of any naive human being that, while reading this post, so happens to actually become convinced that Rapidshare is better than torrents. Then again, if you’ve got the money, knock yourself out with RapidPro. I’ll still take torrents any day and buy cake instead.
And no, you’re not having any.
By Bogdan on Sep 7, 2011 | Reply
Really?
RapidShare simply sucks.
I will mainly complain about the speed, even if most of what you wrote is WRONG.
I’m getting 3MB/s with torrents, and I’m sharing the connection (with a router) with 2 other computers, so I could possibly get 10MB/s. And my connection is sooo cheap! 10$/month to use torrents, not 100$/month to use that ***** RapidShare.
By IT on Oct 31, 2011 | Reply
I had a one year account on RS, and i never had the need to use torrents.. when it expired it tried out torrents.. i’m amazed. I’m downloading atm, with the maximum of my connection speed.
By Poulpos on Nov 24, 2011 | Reply
Ho boy… I can’t let you say this, I totally disagree !
1. RapidShare needs a client too, even without account and on a single-file download : it’s called your web browser, moron ! And by the way, Opera can handle torrents, so I technically don’t need an adiionnal software. But I prefer to use an external torrent software, because a heavy use of a web browser always leads to a memory leak then browser crash, just browse intensively with 20-50 windows during 10 hours, it’s still garanteed with ANY browser. So… Your argument is INVALID !
2. Spyware & Trojans are massively presents in download platforms (MU RS etc) and much MORE persistent because with torrents, a corrupted/malicious file always looses its seeders by itself, just wait enough time to see the file disappear by itself, whereas google will still find a way to provide you malicious shit packaged in a 4 years old RS file, because RS servers kept it that long…
3. Are you trying to compare my PC with a RS server ? Hmm, that’s stupid : how much RS servers are there ? 10.000 ? 100.000 ? 1.000.000 ? How much torrents / p2p users do you think you will find in the world you MORON, you’re FAR under the possibilities of such a world-wide network, not only in terms of number but also in total performance / bandwith !
4. Slow speed, hmm… False / True : True because when I want a single file AND that the server / mirror is not fucking slow as a pentium II (too much load leads to 0-10 kbs DL, like it was in the 80′s), direct download will always beat p2p. False because when I download lots of files, OR when on of the files is located on such a slow server, OR when I can’t find a specific file on download platforms, p2p networks will nearly always let me what I was looking for, except some very few exceptions, and it is ALWAYS free without trying to limit the performances whereas download platforms will always tend limit free users.
5. Hmmm, some very old torrents / p2p files can be hard to achieve, that’s a fact. But I can’t remember how much THOUSANDS pages of “sorry that file have been removed for reason X” where X is not “because user removed it”. X would either be : “Copyright” or “restricted access to members / premium” or “bandwith limit” or “404″ or “internal error” or “fuck you members my javascript / flash will just fail and my page won’t work”… In terms of durability / accessibility of the files, I would trust p2p networks more than DL platform, as I would ratrher trust an experienced end-user of a product rather that the salesmen of the company selling it..