DAP sucks
A story from DAP lover
Wednesday, August 31, 2005 by Mithun Pal | Discussion: Internet
Hello everybody,
Before telling the story let me introduce myself. I am the person who is using DAP as the DM from the very first day I started net surfing – DAP is my first and only DM I have used. After that when DAP 7 released, writing 50 software reviews I got a free license of DAP Premium. I was totally satisfied with the performance and features of it.
Till the mid of July I was a dial-up user, but after that I opt for Broadband connection and got it. As from 16 th August, 2005 free hours were introduced by the Broadband service provider, I decided to download some DVDs – SuSe DVD, Knoppix DVD, Solaris 10 DVD, Debian Linux DVDs etc. Excepting Knoppix and Solaris all others were larger than 4 GB.
Now I added the url of each file to DAP download list, to my surprise I found DAP failed to report the proper file size for a file greater than 4 GB. A conclusion could be drawn from this incident that DAP does not support any download greater than 4 GB.
I started to search for a new DM and found one called Fresh Download having the capacity to recognize a file larger than 4 GB. The free s/w Fresh Download that was never in the competition among the DMs and that doesn't have the popularity as DAP has, found to be a much better DM than DAP.
Though Fresh Download is working good, but I need some features not present in it. Features like – a scheduler like DAP and if possible command prompt support. Can anybody suggest any alternative?
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Reply #22 Friday, September 2, 2005 12:29 PM
| I do download DVDs and have never had the need for a DM. |
Is scheduling possible without a DM? Because, I don't download anything when I need my PC for my personal work. I prefer to schedule them and when I sleep at night, my PC wake up from stand-by mode and getting connected to the internet it starts download. After completion of download, disconnecting from internet PC turns off itself. So, hope now you understand what the need of a DM is.
Reply #23 Saturday, September 3, 2005 5:12 AM
| if you do a clean install too often It moans about the license having expired |
Just like Windows XP
Reply #24 Friday, September 9, 2005 9:59 AM
My mail to DAP:
From: Mithun Pal
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 20:31
To: Support DownloadAccelerator
Subject: DAP does not support any download greater than 4 GB
Hello,
This is from a DAP Premium user and my problem is that I am unable to download properly any file larger than 4GB. Recently I tried to download some DVDs larger than 4GB with DAP Premium (main module 7.5.0.9). But, when I added the url of each file to DAP download list, to my surprise I found DAP failed to report the proper file size for a file larger than 4GB. A conclusion could be drawn from this incident that DAP does not support any download greater than 4 GB. For example, DAP reports the size of the following file -
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/suse/i386/9.3/iso/SUSE-9.3-Eval-DVD.iso
as 184.43MB, instead of its actual size 4.18GB.
So, isn't it possible to add the feature of supporting the file size larger than 4GB?
Their reply:
Dear user,
Thank you for your contact.
Sorry, the maximum file size supported by DAP is 4 GB.
Best regards,
Download Accelerator Plus team.
http://www.downloadaccelerator.com
104 million users can't be wrong!
Conclusion:
Goodbye DAP.
Reply #25 Friday, September 9, 2005 11:35 AM
| Neither LeechGet nor FlashGet supports download size larger than 4GB. |
Sorry, FlashGet supports files larger than 4GB. They have introduced this feature from the version 1.65.
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Reply #21 Thursday, September 1, 2005 11:23 PM
I do download DVDs and have never had the need for a DM.