Author Topic: Does having Download Accelarator Plus improve the speed of downloads? (Read 1112 times)

« **on:** February 25, 2001, 03:35:08 AM »

Like dramatically make them quicker?
Can i now download movies of a massive MB in a relatively short time?

Eg-How long will it take me to download a 20mb file now i have the latest DAP?
Thanx a lot

« **Reply #1 on:** February 25, 2001, 03:46:37 AM »

DAP has got many bugs and problems in the PC... for me the best is Gozilla! (all accelerators has the same velocity +-)

§ôµÏG®ïñD · « **Reply #2 on:** February 25, 2001, 03:58:17 AM »

i use dap the most.. Less crap then Go\'zilla and getright.. It searches for other FTP/HTTP servers if it finds a the file your downloading it will download of more then 1 server also searching for the fastest ones. Quite good.

« **Reply #3 on:** February 25, 2001, 04:07:41 AM »

not for me... DAP has many strange shut downs... i like more Gozilla.

§ôµÏG®ïñD · « **Reply #4 on:** February 25, 2001, 05:48:35 AM »

i have no problems with DAP at all...

« **Reply #5 on:** February 25, 2001, 07:50:55 AM »

I used gozilla and was quite happy with it!

« **Reply #6 on:** February 25, 2001, 10:57:47 AM »

I have been useing DAP for any months now and it always works great. Even resums downloadsd when I lose my connection. Very nice when my 56k craps out with 30 seconds left on 80mb download.

« **Reply #7 on:** February 25, 2001, 07:46:19 PM »

I may be wrong about this so please correct if I am. I was under the impression programs such as Dload XL actually download files in chunks.

For example, when XL starts downloading a 20mb file, it first searches for the mirror sites where that same file can be found. Let\'s say 3 mirrors are found for a total of 4 sites housing the same file. This is where XL really comes to use: it downloads the same file from the 4 different sites at the same time, and each chunk is a seperate part of the file. You\'ll notice at the end of a really big download it will say "Building Output File..."

In theory this technique multiplies dload time by 4, but it\'s more like 2-3.5x as fast. Whatever the case, it is much faster than Save Target As...

§ôµÏG®ïñD · « **Reply #8 on:** February 25, 2001, 07:50:54 PM »

Yep. That\'s what i said. It downloads of more then 1 server at a time..

It does make chunks for files. Then it puts them together when its done. That can s@#t me sometimes. As 100meg files tend to take awhile to put back together. But it does help u download a lot faster. Seaching for the best Mirrors (http/ftp) then downloading of the fastest ones.. Very nifty program indeed.

« **Reply #9 on:** February 26, 2001, 03:11:53 PM »

I\'ve been using DAP for a long time now and its a great program. It can d\\l a file from up to 7 different sites at the same time and searches for servers with the lowest ping.

Hello

Author Topic: Does having Download Accelarator Plus improve the speed of downloads? (Read 1112 times)