DAP Download Accelerator Question

[a1]

It advertise that it can download files 400% faster  :o. I just installed it and tried to download the BMW Challenge and found out that the speed was the same. Even slower I think. Usually my internet is at 700KB/s now it's only downloading at around  60-80 KB/s. How can I make it download faster I can't seem to figure it out. :-/

[an-225]

DAP is crap, I am afraid (sorry for the language, but there is no other way for me to express my feelings about it). I recommend you restart your router, and it should go faster. With DAP, I noticed that the speed stayed the same as without it. However, when I do not download with it, the speed is slower then before I installed it. It forces you to use it.

[Mushroom_Farmer]

It advertise that it can download files 400% faster  

Maybe if you are on a 2400 baud modem. It probably loaded some adware/spyware to your system as well.
The way so-called download acceleratores work is through opening multiple connections to the HTTP server which allows it to download multiple ranges at the same time. Once in a blue moon, when the site that the file is being downloaded from is artificially capping download speeds, a download accelerator will actually work. It will work by bypassing limits which were probably put in place for a very good reason, but it'll work. This is bad, because HTTP servers can only handle a finite number of simultaneous connections, and so when one person is opening up four or eight or twenty connections, he's filling up spaces that could otherwise be used to allow that many other people to connect to the server. Get enough people doing this, and soon no one will be able to connect to the server.


Rule #1 for everything: If it sounds to good to be tue, it probably is.

[Fozzer]

What I found useful with (some) Download Accelerators, was their ability to continue the download after a disconnection, etc, part way through the download.
It was very useful for slow 56k Dial-up users when the connection would often time-out (2 hours) before the download was complete!

No such problem with high speed ADSL Broadband.

F.... 8-)....!

[Mushroom_Farmer]

What I found useful with (some) Download Accelerators, was their ability to continue the download after a disconnection, etc, part way through the download.
It was very useful for slow 56k Dial-up users when the connection would often time-out (2 hours) before the download was complete!

No such problem with high speed ADSL Broadband.

F.... 8-)....!

Yes, the ones that have a 'resume' option will do that. The reason being download files are delivered in small packets. I've even had the built-in Windows download do that on occasion. But I generally still use a manager to get large files for the same reason you brought up.
Ol' Mush still suffers with dial-up. No reasonably priced, reliable high speed service out here yet.

[Ashar]

I've found that a little patience can work miracles

I always say Patience Pays...Yet am very impatient my self...How ironic