The most frequent problem that we(Malaysians) always get from using our ISP is slow connection to international sites. For locally hosted websites such as LowYat, there’s no such problem. Well, our Malaysian ISP TM Net has done it again, 2 weeks of really slow internet connection to international sites and they’re still not able to fix it. I find it really hard to even download a driver file from manufacturer’s website.

I am a big fan of Heroes and I wanted to use my RapidShare Premium account to download the latest Heroes episode 3×16. My maximum download speed is 1.5Mbps and I am downloading at only 238 bytes/sec, that is 0.2kilobytes per second!

Imagine this has been going on for 2 weeks. How humiliating… At first I waited patiently, keeping my fingers crossed hoping that this problem will last for a day or two but it just went on until today. Made me so fed up and I had to look for another method to download my favorite latest TV show.

Since this is a connection problem, rapidshare automated downloader tools such as jDownloader and CryptLoad are now totally useless. The solution to continue downloading from RapidShare is to install a transloading script on a web server hosted in Malaysia, and use the script to make your server download the file from RapidShare. Once the server finished downloading the file from RapidShare, I would then download from my server at maximum speed.


I found a free script called RapidLeech PlugMod rev. 36 that is able to do that. It supports downloading from RapidShare.com and 35 other file hosting servers such as 2shared.com, 4shared.com, adrive.com, depositfiles.com, downtown.vc, easy-share.com, filefactory.com, fileflyer.com, filego.net, files.to, filesend.net, gigasize.com, ifolder.ru, imageshack.us, letitbit.net, mediafire.com, megashare.com, megashares.com, megaupload.com, netload.in, rapidshare.de, savefile.com, sendspace.com, share-online.biz, sharebase.to, sharedzilla.com, speedyshare.com, turboupload.com, uploaded.to, uploading.com, uploads.bizhat.com, youtube.com, ziddu.com, zippyshare.com and zshare.net.

To download the latest RapidLeech script, you’d have to register at the forum in order to view the download link. Here’s a scenario on how to install the script on my www.mywebsite.com

Once I finished downloading the script, I extract and upload the contents to rapidleech folder on my web server using FTP client.

I then have to make the “files” folder writable for the script to download and dump the files there. If your websever is a linux server, simply right click on the folder, select CHMOD and check all so that the permissions will be set as 777. In Windows server, you’d have to ask the server administrator to set the file folder as writable.

Now I open up my browser, type www.mywebsite.com/rapidleech and I can start asking my server to download files from RapidShare by inserting the rapidshare link and hit the Transload File button.

When the server shows that it has finished downloading, I can then download the file to my computer by simply clicking on the link. As you can see that I can download the file that was in rapidshare at 150+KBps. For advanced users, you can take a look at the config.php in config folder. You can set restrictions and also use premium accounts if you have one.

This script is brilliant and will be very useful when your ISP has problems with international links or if your ISP has blocked you from file sharing websites. Even downloading from normal direct link works! If you want to make some money, you can even modify the script to provide premium download features to public and probably earn few hundreds of dollars per month via advertisement. Of course you will need a powerful server that allows a lot, if not unlimited bandwidth plus a large web space to store the downloaded files. Only one small problem that is the script must be constantly maintained and updated or else when some of the service gets updated, the script will fail to download or upload.