Posted on December 28th, 2009 by Shane.
Hacks, Security.

In my last post I mentioned that I was using Rapidshare to download some files. As a free user I noticed that there were not only waiting times but there were also periods of times where I had reached the download limit for free users. The best way to get around this was to get a new IP address. Rapidshare traces the users IP Address to limit each user to a certain amount of downloading per day. To get around this, you need to show the rapidshare server a different IP address.

I have only  tried this on a windows machine, but here is how I requested a new IP address:

1. Click Start
2. Click run
3. In the run box type cmd.exe and click OK
4. When the command prompt opens type the following. ENTER after each new line.
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
exit

this is the best way I have found to get around download limits. There are some other ways that can be found on AskStudent, but I was not successful with any other way except this one.

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