I can get up to 180kB/s on MU without a Premium account, while the last time I could even successfully start a Rapidshare download as a free user was a month ago.
By the way, if you put "mgr_dl.php" before the "?d=" in Megaupload URLs, you can bypass the waits and captchas. The amount of times per hour you can do this is limited, though.
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