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Download Accelerator Plus 10.0.5.0

by Lee Collins

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04 Dec 2012

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Verdict

Commercial download manager that will handle regular files and streaming video, although the free version is limited and contains adverts

Review Rating: rating

Platform: Windows Vista 64-bit, Windows 7, Windows 7 64-bit, Windows Vista, Windows XP

Manufacturer: SpeedBit

Size: 10.6MB

Number of Downloads: 58597

Price: Free (adware)

Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) is a download manager that also claims to increase download speeds by up to 300 per cent.

DAP performs this trick by locating the most responsive server using a proximity test, and by splitting the file(s) into several segments and accessing them from multiple sources if necessary.

In our tests with an ADSL connection, DAP was only faster in a handful of occasions, but always saved you the trouble of manually selecting the fastest or closest server.

More usefully, DAP is also a download manager, which is a tool many of us have forgotten about. Today most people download files into a variety of locations where they can often become lost.

DAP keeps track of them all and also provides a handy history of what you've downloaded and when.

DAP will additionally recover and resume a download which has been interrupted by a broken connection. Very handy even if it doesn't necessarily make your Internet connection feel much faster.

Note a Premium version is available. This Free version contains adverts.

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