proxy/anonymizer... do they work?

Has anyone here had any success using an anonymizer? I've tried several, and not one of them worked for me. I'm especially leery of the ones that tell me I need to upgrade to a paid version to actually download files. Do I need to just accept that I need to use a proxy? I've never used one so I'm unsure how much it would affect my speeds, which are quite fast. I would hate to have to sacrifice that. The recent emergence of http://edoc.com as a popular host has precipitated this dilemma.

On another note, does anyone else have problems dl'ing from http://netload.in or http://asfile.com? I have yet to complete a successful dl from either of those hosts. It either never connects, or the speeds are so microscopically slow that they never even get to 1 MB before they die. These roadblocks are disastrous to an irrationally devoted collector. Am I alone in this plight? I'd love to hear from some people who have had success and those who have not, on either issue.

Netload sucks bigtime. I've been trying to get a 42 mb file for 2 days and it just stops aftet d/l ing less than 100 kb. Filefactory and RS are slow on files over 30mb, but at least they are active, even if it'd just 30 kbs. If anyone has a good experience with Netload, I'd like to hear about it.

Betreid said:

If anyone has a good experience with Netload, I'd like to hear about it.

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Never used it, but, agree about RS anything under 30mb downloads no time at all - anything over now seems to take an aeon.

all the free proxies suck, waste of time.

www.witopia.net

costs money, but it works great. just connect the VPN and you can leave it running all the time if you want. doesn't slow down at all.

don't know if it will work for what you want it for, but I use it to stream geo-blocked stuff from the US.

Cman said:

all the free proxies suck, waste of time.

www.witopia.net

costs money, but it works great. just connect the VPN and you can leave it running all the time if you want. doesn't slow down at all.

don't know if it will work for what you want it for, but I use it to stream geo-blocked stuff from the US.

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I'm actually trying to connect to sites that don't allow connections from the u.s. (mainly edoc), but it's certainly worth checking out... thanks for the link.

Some of you may be interested to know that netload is actually working rather nicely now. I successfully completed 2 files today, with speeds regularly in excess of 300kb/sec. Could this be the first documented completed transfers from them? Maybe everyone else gave up on them and I'm getting all their available bandwidth, I can't really say. I'm frantically searching for all those netload links that I couldn't find hosted anywhere else, though.

Try use vpn. For example securitykiss.com. They give 300 Mb\day Free also.