FREEWARE Solution Suggestion for Fast and Easy Downloads -
Download Accelerator Plus
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Ever start downloading that huge game or upgrade on an older op/sys,
the one that takes 20 minutes, and watching the little blue
line go 96%...97%...98%. All of a sudden, the modem drops
your connection. Bah! Now you've got to start all over
again, right? Not if you were downloading with Download
Accelerator Plus.
DAP is a program which runs in the background of your PC,
waiting for you to download a file. When you start, it
pops up and shows you not only the place you are downloading
from, but any other site which 'mirrors' the same file, and
chooses the fastest site for your download, automatically!
In addition, DAP makes up to 4 simultaneous connections, so
if one site is slow, you're not stuck waiting...most of the
file will be downloaded from faster sites. This can increase
download speeds up to 300%.
But that's not the best feature. Remember that 'broken
download'? With DAP, you simply select the program that
didn't finish, click 'Resume', and DAP will continue downloading
from the point you lost your connection. No need to start from
the beginning, it's just 99%...100% with DAP!
DAP will also allow you to stop a download and pick it up again
anytime you want, or allow you to schedule your downloads for
later. It's never been easier to manage your downloads,
especially if they are 'popular' programs which are available
from many sites.
There are a few drawbacks, however, which are easily overcome
with care.
The first is that DAP will not allow you to download
a file if it thinks you already have. If you want to download
again, just delete the 'old' one from the DAP download list
and try again (it's a good idea to purge this list occasionally
as well).
Secondly, DAP will often give the 'duplicate file error' *behind*
your browser and then wait for you to respond. What you see is
that you clicked a file and the computer locked up...actually you
just need to minimize your browser and tell DAP what to do before
you can continue.
With a little practice, however, DAP is a *great* tool... in fact,
when I had a hard drive crash and had to re-download a bunch of
programs from the web, the first one I chose was DAP. The rest
were a breeze.
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