yes, i have the same problem

I can't enter all of the captcha because it won't allow more than 4 letters. I used to be able to download.

rapidshare capctha sucks. u have to carefully identify those cats & dogs b4 u enter code.

@Crusifux you have to only type those symbols which have a cat

are you on dialup, cable or dsl it makes a difference about download speed..
3 meg in 15 minutes sounds like dialup to me...
if you are on dialup then you will never get much faster than you have right now... sorry

i have had problems with rapidshare, its not so much rapidshare, but they had tangle with cogent upload server site out of germany, something to say the system was overloaded.

my files would duplicate what was already loaded, so had 2 of each file in that time frame, and had issues with files not loading correctly, i had to drop cogent for a bit and use other load centers, cant afford to load tons of bad crap

maybe you overlooked the letters/characters with "cat". Maybe you entered those with "dogs"...