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[Steve]

This is a useful site if you regularly download files from hosting sites such as MegaUpload, Fileserve etc.

What you do is sign up and buy a premium account, as you would with other sites, except LinkSnappy allows you to download from over 20 other file hosting sites through LinkSnappy itself, so you can download files from those 20 sites as if you had premium accounts on each of them. It works with JDownloader too, although you need to use the nightly build of the program, not the regular version. There's info on how to do that and a link to the nightly build in the LinkSnappy FAQ on the site.

Here's a download I just did through MegaUpload: -



The speed maxed out my connection.

I've only just started using it and there are a few negative reviews out there on forums (mostly about getting no response from the customer service), but so far it seems to work as advertised. I've downloaded files from 2 or 3 different file hosting sites and maxed out my connection each time (when using it via JDownloader).

If you want to try it out, you can sign up for a 1 week premium account just to test it, which costs £1.99.

http://www.linksnapp...ex.php?ref=6809

That link is a referral link, so I earn credits if you sign up using it (just to be totally open about this stuff).

[Wax On]

Sounds good, i'm deffo gonna check it out, thanks Stevo!

[Ricta]

usually i only use mu but been using this for the past 3 days no problems so far

[Wax On]

aside from the test week, is it £1.99 per week as standard?

[Steve]

I dunno if you can keep paying £1.99 a week or if that's a one off trial thing, but the £1.99 a week deal is the most expensive way to pay in the long term.

[Wax On]

Ah thats cool if it works out cheaper in the long run. I'll look into it when my RS runs out. Cheers.

[Steve]

Did you try this mate? My account was due to expire last night, but I fired up JDownloader today and under Settings it says "Unlimited" for the expiry date of the account and it's still working. Strange, but I'm not going to complain about that, haha!

[Wax On]

Nice! I've not tried it yet, but i think i will when my rapidshare runs out.

[Steve]

It's worked well for me overall. The only issue I had is when I tried to download about 40 files at once (some old Mike Allen radio shows). Some of them either wouldn't start or they just stopped and I had to start them over. Other than that, it's worked as advertised.

[savwar]

used your referral and i just signed up for the week, might do a month after but just tryin it out...

[Wax On]

My RS has expired so i'll grab a month this weekend from your link

[Wax On]

just bought a month through your link

[Steve]

How are you guys finding this?

[Wax On]

its alright, i haven't downloaded loads of stuff. I got a doc which kept dropping and reconnecting, can't remember what site it was downloading from though

[Chris]

it was crap for me to be honest, no faster than the free service the hosts provide... wupload gives me good download speeds and not many hoops to jump through i find, and if you're to buy one i guess filesonic is my choice.

[Steve]

Were you using it with JDownloader though? That makes all the difference!



The "(10/10)" next to the download speed means that 10 connections to the server have been made, but if you use the LinkSnappy direct links via the website you're only getting 1 connection. I'm getting 2.29 MB/s from MegaUpload in that pic, which is 18.32 Mb/s and very close to maxing out my connection. I get that with all the hosts I've tried when using JDownloader.

[Chris]

I tried with and without - funnily enough I saw on their site they recommend against using jdownloader?

[Steve]

Do they?

What do you have the max connections per file and max downloads set to (bottom right of the main JDownloader window)?

If you've got the settings the same as me, then I'm sorry it's not working out for you mate! I use it mainly with Filesonic, FileServe and Wupload and I get max speed every time. I've also used Rapidshare and MegaUpload links and got max speed too. The only time I've had a problem is the first week I used it when links would occasionally stop downloading and I'd have to restart them, but that hasn't happened since.

[Steve]

This worked well for a while, then it seemed to be very hit and miss. I switched to Zevera instead which so far has been working well and it covers a lot more hosts: -



http://www.zevera.com

[Wax On]

Questions:

1. How are the other ho4sts with keeping things up these days (post megagate)

2. Does it work with JDownl0ader in the same way Linksnappy did?