>>1401
Rapidshare has its faults to be sure, but let's put things in a little more perspective.
Of the major upload sites, it has the highest download speed, and its uploading speed is only tied by mediafire. Point for RS.
For half the day or more, it's in its "happy hour," meaning no download wait times, no codes, and no hassle. Ties here with sites like Mediafire and Badongo.
From what I've seen in the past, it seems to have the fewest (percentage-wise) problems with worldwide access.
Major flaws? Yeah. When it's not on happy hour, at least until recently, it got it into its head to use the stupidest captcha I've ever seen. It's gone back to a slightly more sane system, but then, it still has the wait time.
You have a waiting period after every download you make, no matter the size. This wait time is in a direct relationship with the size of the file, so a download of 5mb is going to make you wait some five or six minutes until you can go again, while a download of 80mb is going to cost you over an hour—unless you have dynamic, in which case you can disconnect and reconnect. Still, even that's a bit annoying.
Their policies waver too much. Once upon a time, they had completely done away with the wait time before downloading. For a long time, this was the case. Then they brought it back completely inexplicably. In other words, they're kinda bastards.
Yes. RS sucks. More than Mediafire. It just doesn't suck nearly as much as people tend to claim it does.
God knows it's better than Megaupload for anything under 100mb.