When she's working properly, shes a star! (Download Accelerator Plus)

Member Name: hazzeryoda

Product:	Download Accelerator Plus
Date:	11/01/01 (532 review reads)
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Advantages: FAST (mostly), helpful and useful features, not too many confusing and pontless features like others.

Disadvantages: ads - find em and delete em. can be temperamental

Not everyone it seems has heard of download Acellerator - http://www.downloadacellerator.net
It is the best download manager I have found as It really can (CAN) increase your download sppeds by 300%!

One thing: to get the most out of Download Acellerator, you need to be pretty handy with a comp, there are some tricky configuration methods to be used and you need to be aware or menus and options and what they mean. But if you're not a computer nerdy nerd nerd, just stick it on, click 'yes' and it'll be fine. ish.

DA has a habit of being temperamental, a trait which is common with all D.load managers I've found. The whole buisness of downloading something and offering features more than the standard MS downloader is quite a job.
Once configuration is perfect and you know how to work it well, it will not really fail by its own faults. The net may cause it some problems of course.

DA works by connecting to the site where the file is stored multiple times and managing these simultaneous downloads. After each segment is done, it pieces the information together seamlessly. There are option when a download commences, of 'regular' or 'acellerated' - as acellerated d.loads usually take up your connection speed, you may want to do little esle on the internet at the same time. A handy feature.

There is also the ping screen that pops up before you download. This searches for other servers on the net which hold the same file. The fastest servers are displayed and DA connects to them. How nice.

There is little in the way of support by DA's makers and may feel a little skimpy, but it will serve you well. and it DOESN'T send a list of d.loaded files back to the maker's servers like RealDownload does!

You want faster downloads? THIS will be better than the ones you've tried.

Harry

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