"Hacks to Beat Rapidshare Download Limits and Waiting Time"

Here are some hints to help you more efficently use rapidshare.
Skipping waiting time and bypassing download limits are rapidshare
hacks that everybody should know.
Rapidshare has been an
excellent tool for sharing large files. Recently users have discovered
ways of bypassing the download limits and skipping the waiting time.
Here are a description of these methods.



Update: Two new methods of bypassing download limits have been
posted. These are more advanced and may require additional software or
hardware, but you should check them out when you are done with these
easier methods:



 http://www.tech-recipes.com/internet_tips1376.html - RapidShare: NIC tricks and MAC cloning to bypass download limit 



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. 


Here are some methods for doing this:



1. Short-Out the JavaScript:
1. Goto the page you want to download

2. Select FREE button

3. In the address bar put the following:  javascript:alert(c=0)
4. Click OK
5. Click OK to the pop-up box

6. Enter the captcha

7. Download Your File



2. Request a new IP address from your ISP server.  

Here's how to do it in windows:

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


5. Erase your cookies in whatever browser you are using.

6. Try the rapidshare download again.



Frequently you will be assigned a new IP address when this happens.
Sometime you will, sometimes you will not. If you are on a fixed IP
address, this method will not work. To be honest, I do not know how to
do this in linux/unix/etc. If this works for you, you may want to save
the above commands into a batch file, and just run it when you need it.