4 Shared had gotten much worse

CrisG · Post by **CrisG** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 6:37 pm

4Shared seems to have set new download limits i dont see how anyone who is not a member can depend on getting a download of a complete game in anything like a reasonable time. I tried to dl a game last night with 30 parts, after 12 parts were downloaded, it started throwing a "download limit exceeded" try again in a few minutes..well that is a load of BS 12 hours later it is saying the same thing. they are holding uploads hostage trying to force us to sign up for their pay service.

Just a word of warning. I would switch uploads to Megaupload, much better and they at least are honest about giving free downloads. nuff said.

Post by **Scaryfun** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 11:45 pm

I haven't experienced this yet but if this is indeed going to happen then I will change to Megaupload.

Post by **rastan saga** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 8:26 am

Yeah, change to Megaupload and then I cant download anything

4shared-megaupload-rapidshare etc, slowly all hosts are going down to a same shit for free users.
Soon, I'm sure Megaupload changes rules too.

Anyway, your decision...

CrisG · Post by **CrisG** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 3:27 pm

I have used 4Shared before and it was never a problem but now they ownt allow more than it looks like 14 downloads before putting up major roadblocks for free users, i have been unable to dl an of the files for htis game for 24 hours, i thought it would reset for a new sesision but i am still getting Your Download session has expired..or some such mesage...

I may hve to sign up for the pay service.

ah well, i suppose it was bound to happen eventually such marketing is inevitable as said.

MU is free to all users unless there has been a problem of abuse of service.... and with premium service you can dl an unlimited number of downloads and very fast. I did end up signing u for that one and i8t has been great.

Warepire · Post by **Warepire** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 4:09 pm

MegaUpload do have Download Limit exceeded on their servers but it's per area (I don't know the sizes of the areas).

Sometimes when I download something it just dies... That is the download limit kicking in and cutting you off. But with the use of a free account and JDownloader I can resume when the limit is no longer reached.

It should however be noted that MegaUpload is going downhill too even if it is very slowly for the moment.

Post by **Virgil** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 4:59 pm

Check out fileserve.com and netload.in. Good Hosts in my opinion.

Post by **Trey** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 9:37 pm

I'd probably say Fileserve's the best bet. Huge file sizes, and the same relativly short wait time.

Post by **rastan saga** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 8:02 am

Fileserve+Netload+Hotfile+X7 are perfect combination for free downloaders but I dont know how for uploaders...

Post by **Shattered** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 11:01 am

The problem with sites as Fileserve and Hotfile is the waiting time and retention. The files will be deleted after respectively 60 and 90 days without download. If we switch to those sites we will need to do a lot of re-uploading. Hotfile has a waiting time of 30 min. between each file, so that's not ideal as well. With Fileserve it's 10 min. + captcha.

I just downloaded more than 6 GB from 4shared with JDownloader and the only limit I see is the maximum of 6:30 min. waiting time (depending on the file size) for each file. I didn't encounter any download limit yet.

Post by **Scaryfun** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 10:14 pm

Good to hear!

Post by **Old_Schooler** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 11:52 pm

I tried downloading a compressed game split into more than 14 archives (Gregory and the Hot Air Balloon) and am happy to say that I've not been met with any restrictions.

Granted, I was using Mipony, but I'm still happy!

Maraakate · Post by **Maraakate** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 3:22 pm

Shattered wrote: I just downloaded more than 6 GB from 4shared with JDownloader and the only limit I see is the maximum of 6:30 min. waiting time (depending on the file size) for each file. I didn't encounter any download limit yet.

I just started using JDownloader as well. Just set your max connections and max downloads to 1. You won't be able to "cheat" and download two files at once like you can sometimes get away with on 4shared, but I'd rather just set it and walk away from it. I noticed sometimes enabling 2 downloads will get JDownloader to flag the file as a 404 and skip it.

Post by **Scaryfun** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:29 pm

4shared now allows up to 2GB file uploads instead of the old 200MB limit per file.

However recently it's also giving upload errors which could also be related to new changes. Hopefully they fix this quickly.
What I do now is upload the smallest part first and if it goes through successfully then I up remaining parts. If you do get an upload error, I suggest you sign off the account and sign back in as this seems to clear future errors.

Post by **catchaserguns** » Tue May 24, 2011 12:21 am

$shared has gotten so bad that I had to get a premium account to even download anymore. Everytime the timer ran out I clicked to download and the timer restarted. They must be really desparate.

Post by **zobraks** » Tue May 24, 2011 8:06 am

I've downloaded some 13 GBs from 4Shared (free account) with jDownloader in last three days. Downloading speed was maximum for my ADSL Internet connection (174 KB/s).